Dell NetWorker 19.9 Administration Guide

Customizing and saving reports

A customized report is a changed copy of a canned report. Canned reports can be changed and then saved under different names. You can preserve the report configuration parameters that are most useful for the enterprise. For NetWorker reporting purposes, the terms customized report and saved report are synonymous.

A customized report can be rerun the same way at a later time, and even by another user. This saves time if the same report information must be generated repeatedly.

Customized reports offer these additional options, available from the right-click menu of a customized report:

• Delete—To delete the report.
• Rename—To rename the report.
• Save—To save the report.
• Save As...—To resave the report by using a different name.
• Share—To add sharing to the report or to remove sharing from the report.

Since it is a copy, a customized report can be changed again and resaved, or even deleted. Reports can be saved either to preserve particular configurations (such as which servers are polled) or to save the view type (such as pie or bar chart).

Customized reports appear alphabetically in the report hierarchy below the canned report from which they were created. They are stored in the NMC database, which means that users can access them from any host that they use to log in to the NMC GUI and can use the report from a command prompt. Command line reporting provides more information about running reports from the command line.

A customized report stores the following configuration information:

• All options from the report’s Configure tab.
• Column display preferences for tables.
• Orientation (portrait or landscape).
• Current view type (table or chart). For charts, NMC also saves the current chart type (bar, pie, plot, or stacked bar) and the chart axis selection. Interactive and document mode chart types provides more information about chart axis selection.