Reporting

Use reporting functions to view overview and detailed information about your storage.

You can view detailed capacity information for storage systems, servers, hypervisors and their internal resources, such as volumes, pools, disks, and virtual machines. For example, you can view the total amount of storage capacity that is committed to a volume, the capacity that is used by a volume, and the capacity that is allocated to a volume and is not yet used.

In rollup mode, secondary rollup servers collect information from managed resources and roll that data up to primary rollup servers. This gives you a network-wide perspective of storage usage in your environment when you have multiple IBM Spectrum Control servers deployed.

You can use the IBM® Cognos® Analytics reporting tool to view predefined reports and create custom reports about the resources managed by IBM Spectrum Control. Use the IBM Cognos Analytics reporting tool to view predefined reports about the capacity and performance of your resources. 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 comprehensive information and statistics about your storage resources.