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Watch4net | EMC M&R | ViPR SRM - How to create a custom report for Maintenance Schedule (336219)

Last Updated: 5/29/2020Categories: TroubleshootingTotal Views: 4850Language:
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Enable restricted users or non-admin users to view Maintenance Schedule by creating a custom report that will be available on the Frontend.

Pre-requisite(s): Basic knowledge on creating (custom) reports

Source: Storage Resource Management 3.0 User and Administration Guide

Chapter 2 - Working with Reports in Edit mode (page 19)

Resolution

1. On Frontend, go to EDIT MODE and browse through "My Reports".
2. Create a new report from "My Reports".

3. Name the report and save. We are going to use "Outage Period" in this example.
4. Select the newly created report node, and create a child report. Create another child report within the child report. In this example, "Outage Period" has "title" child report, and "title" has object child report.

5. Select "object" node, and select the following:

Filtering & Expansion tab

Use the filter of this node for - expansion only

Display Policy - show this node in the reports but not in tree

Expansion - Add a Property > OUTAGE tab > object

Report Configuration tab

Report Rendering - static charts by default

Default Duration - current 1 year*

Sampling Period - real-time*

Sampling Type - average*

* this can be changed but all three report nodes should have the same settings

6. Save  "object" report.
7. Click on "title" report node, and select the following:

Report Configuration tab

Report Type - table

The rest should be the same as "object" report node

Filtering & Expansion tab

Use the filter of this node for - expansion only

Display Policy - always show the node

Expansion - Add a Property > OUTAGE tab > title

Report Details: Table tab

Property:object (from OUTAGE tab)

Formula tab

Add util.ChildCount formula

Rename "result returned" to objectcount

8. Save "title" report.
9. Select parent report (Outage Period), and select the following:

Filtering & Expansion tab

Use the filter of this node for - expansion and selection

Display Policy - always show the node

Report Configuration tab

same as "title" node report

Report Details: Table tab

Properties to be added are coming from OUTAGE tab:

title

starttime

endtime

Add Value

Selected Value -  use a formula result > objectcount

Value Settings > uncheck Use Rounding

9. Save Report.

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