You can save information about resources, tasks, or alerts 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 resources, tasks, or alerts.
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 determine the order of its rows.
- Filter the list to show only the resources, tasks, or alerts 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 following pages:
- Resource list and resource details pages
- You can export information about the top-level resources, internal resources, or related
resources that are shown on resource list pages and resource details pages. For top-level resources,
you can also export information about related tasks or alerts.
- For example, you can export information about monitored switches on the Switches page. When you
select the export action, the generated file includes the column values for each monitored switch in
the list. In the Alerts tab on the Switches page, you can export information
about all the alerts that are related to switches.
- Alerts page
- On the page, you can export information about all the alerts that were detected for
monitored resources. Information that you can export includes all the values that are being shown in
the columns for the list of alerts.
- Tasks page
- On the page, you can export information about all the tasks that are used to optimize
resources and provision storage. Information that you can export includes all the values that are
being shown in the columns for the list of tasks.
- In the GUI, go to a list of resources, tasks, or alerts for which you want to export
information.
- Right click any row in the table and select , 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.
- Optional: Depending on how your web browser is configured, you can specify
the name and location of the generated file.
- Click the save option to export the information to a file.