Reporting with Cognos Analytics

Use the Cognos® Analytics reporting tool to view predefined reports and create custom reports about the resources that are monitored by IBM Spectrum® Control.

Charts are automatically generated for most of the predefined reports. Depending on the type of resource, the charts show statistics for space usage, workload activity, bandwidth percentage, and other statistics. You can schedule reports and specify to create the report output in HTML, PDF, and other formats. You can also configure reports to save the report output to your local file system, and to send reports as email attachments.

You must collect information about your environment before you can use reports to view details about the storage resources in it. You can use IBM Spectrum Control monitoring jobs, such as probes and performance monitors, to gather that information.