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Ensure that historical reporting is enabled
The first step in preparing to run reports is to ensure that historical reporting is enabled.
Reports run against long-term historical data that is stored in the Tivoli Data Warehouse. Before you can run reports, ensure that you have installed the required components and configured historical data collection:
Procedure
- Install and configure the Tivoli Data Warehouse and warehouse agents: Warehouse Proxy agent and Summarization and Pruning agent, see the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Installation and Setup Guide.
- Set up historical collection using the Historical Collection Configuration feature in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal, see Historical collection configuration.
For z/OS-based monitoring agents, configure the persistent data store using the Configuration Tool, see "Configure the persistent data store" in the Configure the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server on z/OS and also refer to the IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE and Tivoli Management Services on z/OS Common Planning and Configuration .
- Optionally, enable access to summarized data in the Tivoli Data Warehouse. The use of summarized data in reports can simplify analysis of displayed reports and improve the performance of generating the reports.
What to do next
After starting the Tivoli Data Warehouse, the warehouse agents, and data collection, allow enough time for the Tivoli Data Warehouse to save historical data for your requested report time period or the appropriate amount of data for a summarized report. For example, if you want a monthly report, you need at least a month's worth of stored data.
Parent topic:
Tivoli Common Reporting