Exporting information about applications and departments

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You can save information about applications and departments to a PDF, CSV, or HTML file. Information that you can export from the GUI includes all the values that are being shown in the columns for a list of applications and departments.

Before you begin

The information that you export to a file is organized according to the sorting, filtering, and column order that is defined for a list. Before you export information, complete the following tasks to configure a list:
  • Change the order of columns in the list as you want them to appear in the generated file.
  • Hide columns in the list that you do not want to include in the generated file. Information in hidden columns is not exported.
  • Sort the rows in the list as you want them to appear in the generated file. Each list in the GUI has a column or set of columns that determines the order of its rows.
  • Filter the list to show only the applications and departments that you want to export. Use filtering to limit the rows that are shown in a list based on value in a specific column or set of default columns.

About this task

You can export information that is shown on the application and department list and detail pages.
Applications and departments list and detail pages
You can export information about the top level applications and departments and the related resources that are shown on application and department list and detail pages.
For example, you can export information about monitored applications and their subcomponents and departments on the Applications page. When you select the export action, the generated file includes the column values for each monitored application in the list.
For example, you can export information about the servers that are associated with an application on the details page.

Procedure

  1. In the GUI, go to the Applications or Departments page and select applications or departments for which you want to export information.
  2. Click Actions and select Export > file_format, where file_format represents the format that you want to use for a file.
    The following formats are available:
    CSV (comma-separated values)
    A CSV file is a file that contains comma-delimited values and can be viewed with a text editor or imported into a spreadsheet application. The information in a CSV file has the following format: 
    "Column_name","Column_name","Column_name","Column_name","Column_name","Column_name"
"data","data","data","data","data","data"
    where Column_name represents the name of a column in a table and data represents the data that is associated with a column.
    PDF
    You can view a PDF file with Acrobat reader. The information that you export to a PDF file is formatted into a table.
    Tip: When you export a table of data that contains many columns, the rows in that table might span multiple pages in the resulting PDF. For example, if a table contains 20 columns, then the row for a specific resource might be shown on more than one page (10 columns on the first page and 10 columns on the second page).

    To reduce the number of pages that a table spans, before you select the export action, hide the columns that you do not want to include in the PDF. Continue hiding columns until the table no longer spans multiple pages.

    HTML
    You can view an HTML file with a web browser. The information that you export to an HTML file is formatted into a table.
  3. Optional: Depending on how your web browser is configured, you can specify the name and location of the generated file.
  4. Click the save option to export the information to a file.