Creating predefined inventory reports

To share information with your colleagues about the configuration and properties of your storage assets, create inventory reports.

Step 1: Pick your predefined report

Click Reports, and then click Create Report and pick the inventory report that you want to create.

Step 2: Name the report

Provide a unique name for your report. You can use alphabetical and numerical characters, hyphens, dashes, and blank spaces.

Step 3: Specify the scope of the report

Generate information about all of the resources of a specific type, such as an inventory report for block storage systems, or IBM Storage Virtualize nodes, or IBM Storage Scale nodes.

Step 4: Select columns

To ensure that the report's recipients get the information that they need, you can add more information, such as the location of the resources or custom tags. You can also remove the information that your colleagues don't need.

Step 5: Add filters

To refine the information in the report, you can add up to four filters.

Sample filters for block storage systems inventory reports

Sample filters for storage system type and firmware version for using in inventory reports for block storage systems

For example, if you want to check whether your IBM Storwize family block storage systems have the correct firmware version, you can add filters to list the storage systems with firmware versions that don't match the value that you enter.

Don't forget to check the table when you apply filters to make sure that the recipients of the report will get the information that they need.

Step 6: Schedule and deliver the report

To notify your colleagues of inventory issues, create one-off inventory reports or create a schedule to provide regular updates about the state of your storage environment.
Tip: If you want to modify the report in a spreadsheet, you can also attach the report as a CSV, PDF, or HTML file.

Review, edit, and delete reports

To review the report that you created, click Reports, expand the relevant section, such as Inventory Report, and then select the report.

You can edit the report, such as change the name and scope of the report or schedule of the report. To delete the report, click Actions > Delete Report.
Tip: You want to send a scheduled report now, but you don't want to change the original schedule? Click Reports. Select the report, and click Actions > Run Now. The report is sent without changing the schedule that you saved.