After you create a customized report definition, you can generate
a performance-analysis report that includes only those parameters that you
have specified.
Complete these steps to create a new performance-analysis report
definition:
- Run the Monitor Activator subtask on a managed system or
group to activate the monitors for that system or group.
- Expand Report Generator
- Double-click New Report Definition.
- In the Report Definitions window, specify the report parameters:
- Click the Report Parameters tab.
- Select the report duration, the global sampling frequency, and
whether to collect minimum and maximum values.
Note: Selecting
the Collect min and max values check box specifies that the minimum
and maximum data points for each sample are collected. An advantage of collecting
the minimum and maximum data points is that you can use a slower sampling
frequency, which collects data less frequently; using this option reduces
the size of the report while still providing informative managed-system performance
data. If memory usage is an issue, consider using a slower sampling frequency.
Note that the average is always collected.
- Select number of minutes Capacity Manager waits for a system
to respond before considering the system unable to provide the data from the Timeout
per system drop-down list.
- Click New. In the New Time Interval window, specify the
time of the report.
- Specify the methods you want to use to generate the report:
- Click the Method of Generating a Report tab.
- Select Generate to Viewer or Generate to File.
- Select the appropriate file-format check boxes to generate the
file in the selected formats. The default file format is XML.
- If you selected Generate to SQL, type the database Web
address and root table name in the applicable fields.
Note: The
ability to generate a report in SQL format is available on a Window platform
only.
- If you use SQL authentication, type the user ID and password
for the SQL connection in the applicable fields.
- Select Generate Bottleneck events to generate an event
in the IBM Director event log.
- Select Back up existing files to archive saved reports.
- Select Number of backups to set the number of reports
to keep.
- Select Set destination directory to set the destination
directory.
Note: The default destination directory is IBM\Director\reports.
- Specify the monitor selection:
- Click the Monitor Selection tab.
- On the Monitor Selection page, click Include all activated
monitors to include all active monitors in the report, or click Select
individual monitors to select specific monitors.
- If you chose to set individual monitors:
- Click the appropriate monitors in the Monitors list.
- Click Include or Exclude to include or exclude the selected
monitors.
- Select the Override global settings check box to use
a different sampling frequency than the default.
- Specify the thresholds:
- Click the Threshold Settings tab.
Note: A threshold setting applies to all managed systems included in
the report definition.
- In the Critical threshold field, type the value of the
critical threshold.
- In the Warning threshold field, type the value of the
warning threshold.
- Click Return to defaults to set the threshold values
to default values.
- Click Save As.
- In the Save As window, type the name of the report definition
and click OK.