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.

In IBM Spectrum Control, you can share information with your colleagues and management:

By creating predefined inventory and capacity reports that you can save to your file system and send by email
By creating custom reports that you can save to your file system or send by email
By creating chargeback and consumer reports that you can send by email
By using the Representational State Transfer (REST) API to get information about storage resources and to generate configuration and performance reports
By exporting information about the configuration, capacity, and performance of storage resources to HTML, PDF, or CSV files

More about exporting information to files:

You can use the export feature as follows:

To export capacity and performance information about your storage resources from IBM Spectrum Control into 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

You can use an external reporting tool, Cognos® Analytics reporting interface, to view predefined reports and create custom reports about IBM Spectrum Control. For more information, see Reporting with Cognos Analytics.

Predefined, custom, and storage consumption reports

In the IBM Spectrum Control 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 servers, 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, hypervisors, servers, IBM Spectrum Virtualize nodes, and IBM Spectrum 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 save or send in a few simple steps. To create performance reports, open the Performance page for the resource and click Create Report.

Storage consumption reports

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

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

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.