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Tivoli Common Reporting overview

The Tivoli Common Reporting tool is a reporting feature available to users of Tivoli products. Use Tivoli Common Reporting to gather, analyze, and report important trends in your managed environment in a consistent and integrated manner. A set of predefined reports is provided for the Tivoli Monitoring OS Agents and other products for monitoring individual, multiple, and enterprise resources.

Tivoli Common Reporting consumers

  • The network systems programmer who troubleshoots TCP/IP issues

  • The application analyst or documentation manager

  • The IT manager or service level advisor who validates service level agreements

  • The capacity planner

  • The service manager

  • The system administrator

  • The storage administrator

Tivoli Common Reporting components

Tivoli Common Reporting consists of several components:

  • A data store for storing and organizing report designs, reports, and supporting resources. The data store is a location within the Tivoli Common Reporting infrastructure where all report-related files and reports are managed and maintained.

  • A web-based user interface for specifying report parameters and other report properties, generating formatted reports, and viewing reports.

  • A command-line interface for working with objects in the data store and performing additional administrative functions.

  • Report packages, archive files containing reports, documentation, graphics, and dynamic link libraries.

    • A sample set of reports is provided with the Tivoli Common Reporting product. Other sets can be downloaded and installed using the Import facility.

    • A CD is available for the Cognos version of the Tivoli Monitoring agent reports.

    • BIRT report packages for some monitoring agents are included as .zip files on the Tivoli Monitoring Agent installation media in the REPORTS/kpc directory, where pc is the two-character product code. Report packages are available on the IBM Integrated Service Management Library for a number of Tivoli Monitoring products. You can search "Tivoli Common Reporting" to find report packages in the IBM Integrated Service Management Library.

    You can find additional report packages generated by other non-IBM users, business report templates, and the Tivoli Common Reporting: Development and Style Guide at the IBM developerWorks Tivoli Common Reporting community.

  • The open-source Eclipse BIRT Report Designer that you can use to modify reports or create your own. This tool can be downloaded from the IBM developerWorks Tivoli Common Reporting community.

Tivoli Common Reporting provides enhanced security that enables you to assign a security string to hypertext links in a report. The Tivoli Common Reporting User's Guide provides instructions for entering a security set.

For more information about Tivoli Common Reporting, including information about installing and administering Tivoli Common Reporting and creating reports, refer to the following information centers:


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