Tutorial: Creating a report about fabrics

Share a report with your colleagues that shows the health, status, and the number of components, such as switches and ports, in your fabrics.

About this task

From any table view in the IBM Storage Insights GUI, you can create, schedule, and send reports by email to your colleagues.

In this tutorial, you create a report about the fabrics that you added for monitoring.

Procedure

  1. From the Resources menu, click Fabrics.
  2. Click Create Report.
  3. Enter the unique name of the report and click Next.
  4. Customize the information that is shown in the report and then click Next.
    Ensure that your colleagues get the information that they need in the report. You can remove information that your colleagues don't need. And, you can rearrange columns by dropping the columns where you want them to appear in the report.
  5. Add a filter.
    For example, you can add a filter to show information by location and by fabric type.
  6. Schedule the delivery of the report.

Results

The report is generated at Reports > Custom Report section.