Reporting

Keep your colleagues and management up-to-date by sending inventory, capacity, performance, and storage consumption reports by email or by exporting information about your storage environment.

Reports overview

Share the information that is collected about your storage environment by sending reports by email or by exporting the information to create your own reports.

User roles: You must have an Administrator role to create, edit, or delete custom, predefined capacity and inventory reports, and chargeback and storage consumption reports. Users with a Monitor role can run and view the reports that are shown on the Reports page, but they can't edit or delete reports.

In IBM Storage Insights Pro, you can create all of the reports and share the reports with your colleagues and management:

Create reports in the free version of IBM Storage Insights: In the free version of IBM Storage Insights, you can create these predefined reports and share the reports with your colleagues and management:

Capacity reports for block storage systems and pools
Inventory reports for block storage systems

Try it out! From the menu, click Reports, and then click Create Report.

You can use the export feature as follows:

To export capacity and performance information about your storage resources from IBM Storage Insights Pro into the spreadsheets and the reports that you create for your organization
To share information with your colleagues about the storage resources in your environment
To make your colleagues aware of issues and to help them investigate and resolve capacity and performance issues

Predefined, custom, and storage consumption reports

In the IBM Storage Insights Pro GUI, you can create the following types of reports, which you can configure, schedule, and send by email:

Predefined reports

You can use predefined reports:

To notify colleagues about the capacity issues that affect them, and to monitor the capacity usage of resources, such as storage systems, pools, and hosts, to ensure that you have sufficient capacity to meet current usage and to help plan capacity purchases
To generate inventory reports about your storage assets, such as storage systems, hosts, and IBM Storage Virtualize nodes, and IBM Storage Scale nodes

Custom reports

You use custom reports to create a variety of reports such as reports that provide information about your storage assets, and capacity and performance reports that provide information about the storage usage and performance of your resources.

Tip: You can open the table view for any resource, such as storage systems, volumes, pools, general groups, applications, and departments and click Create Report to create a custom report that you can send in a few simple steps. To create performance reports, open the Performance page for the resource and click Create Report.

Chargeback reports

Use these reports to make the owners of resources, such as applications, departments, or physical servers, aware of the amount and cost of the block and file storage that is consumed.

Storage consumer reports

Use these reports to make the owner of a specific resource, such as an application, department, or physical server, aware of the amount and cost of the block storage that is consumed.

Storage as a Service capacity report

Use this report to make the administrator aware of the capacity usage, and additional cost required when the usage exceeds the contracted base capacity of the monitored storage systems.

How to create reports

Watch a short video about how to create and customize a capacity report, attach a file to the report, and schedule when to run it in IBM Storage Insights Pro.