Exporting information about resources

Notify your colleagues about the current state and potential issues with your storage environment by exporting the capacity and performance information that is shown in the GUI.

You can use the information that is shown about your storage resources and their related resources to create reports in HTML or PDF file formats that you can send to your colleagues. Alternatively, you can export the information about your resources to a CSV file, which you can include in a report that you want to create about your storage resources.

You can go to the resource or internal resource page and create reports that contain the following types of information:

Table 1. Types of information in resource reports
Location	Types of information
Resource or internal resource page	Status, configuration, and capacity data
Performance tab for resource or internal resource	Key performance metrics
Capacity tab for resource or internal resource	Key capacity metrics

Restriction: You might not be able to view capacity and performance metrics for all of the resources.

For example, you monitor the pools for a SAN Volume Controller and you see that some of the pools are running out of capacity. To notify your colleagues, you export the information about the pools to an HTML file and send it to your colleagues. You want to include information about the input/output performance of the volumes for your storage systems in a report. To create the report, you export the information that is shown in the performance chart to a CSV file.

If you want to extract configuration, capacity, or performance information regularly about your storage resources, you can use the Representational State Transfer (REST) API to automatically export the data that you need to create your reports.