Creating custom reports

Create, configure, schedule, and send custom reports by email that include asset, capacity, configuration, or health status or performance information about your storage resources.

About this task

Use custom reports to quickly create reports to alert members of your organization about performance anomalies, health issues, capacity shortfalls, or capacity depletion. You can also schedule custom reports to keep a close watch on critical resources such as applications, or the storage resources that you use in your production environment.

From any table view that shows information about your storage systems or their related resources, you can create, configure, schedule, and send reports by email.

For example, you can create custom reports that include asset, capacity, and configuration information or performance information for top-level storage resources such as:
  • Storage systems
  • Hosts
  • Back-end storage systems
You can create custom reports for internal resources such as:
  • Disks
  • Pools
  • Volumes
  • Filesets
  • File systems
  • Network Shared Disks
And, if you added groups, you can create custom reports for general groups, applications, and departments.
Try it out: Open any page that shows information about your storage resources, such as the Block Storage Systems page, click Create Report, and create a custom report. Or, go to the Performance page and click Create Report, to create a performance report.

Procedure

  1. Open any page that shows capacity or performance information about your storage systems, and then click Create Report.
  2. Provide a unique name for your report. You can use alphabetical and numerical characters, hyphens, dashes, and blank spaces.
    Remember: When you create your report, you can also use the table view features to customize your report, such as:
    • Drag the column headings to reorder the information that you want to show in the report.
    • Click the column heading in the table view to sort the values in the column.
  3. To ensure that the report's recipients get the information that they need, you can add other information, such as the location of the resources or custom tags and remove the information they don't need.
  4. To refine the capacity or asset information that you want to share, you can add up to four filters.
    Examples of filters
    For example, if you want to notify resource administrators or owners about capacity shortfalls, you can set threshold values for capacity information. Or if you want to exclude information that is not of interest to the report's recipients, you can add a filter. Check the report preview when you apply filters to make sure that the recipients of the report will get the information that they need.
    Tip: You can add advanced filters to refine information about capacity and information about the assets in your storage environment. If advanced filters aren't available for a resource, you can use the filter feature that is available in the table. For example, in reports about volumes, you can filter by volume, pool, or storage system name, or by Easy Tier® attributes.
  5. Send the report now or schedule the report to be sent regularly, such as every week, or month.
    You can send the report by email, and attach the report as a CSV, PDF, or HTML file.

Results

To review the report that you created, click Reports > Reports, expand Customs Report, and then select the report.

You can edit the report, such as change the name and the schedule for the report. To delete the report, click Actions > Delete Report.

Tip: You want to send a scheduled report now, but you don't want to change the original schedule? Click Reports > Reports. Select the report, and click Actions > Run Now. The report is sent without changing the original schedule.