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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2

Generate a sample BIRT report

Tivoli Common Reporting BIRT report packages are organized by product. Select a report set to generate a report.


Procedure

  1. Launch a browser that is compatible with Tivoli Common Reporting, and enter this address: https://<address>:16311/ibm/console/logon.jsp, where <address> is the IP address or host name of the system where Tivoli Common Reporting is installed. If your environment was configured with a port number other than the default, enter that number instead. The default path to the server is /ibm/console. However, this path is configurable, and might differ from the default in your environment.

  2. In the navigation tree on the left, expand the Reporting item.

  3. Click Common Reporting. All the reports available (all the report packages that you have imported) are displayed in the text area of the screen.

  4. On the Navigation tab, expand the Tivoli Products item.

  5. Select the Tivoli product whose reports you want to use from the list of available products.

  6. If this is the first time you have run reports based on data from the Tivoli Data Warehouse, perform the following steps:

    1. Define the Tivoli Data Warehouse as the data source for your reports; for more information, see Configure the data source. For information about data sources, see the IBM Tivoli Common Reporting User's Guide or the online help for Tivoli Common Reporting.

    2. Copy the required JDBC drivers from the local or remote database manager that you are using to run the Tivoli Data Warehouse into the Tivoli Common Reporting server directory.

    You might need to increase the default heap size for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) on the Java command to start the Tivoli Common Reporting server. If you see these messages displayed when you create a report, you might have to increase the default heap size: 

      Processing has ended because of an unexpected error. 
See the Tivoli Common Reporting log files for more information.

    See OMEGAMON XE and Tivoli Management Services on z/OS: Reports for Tivoli Common Reporting for information about how to increase the default heap size.

  7. In the Actions column, click the run icon for the report you want to launch, and then select the type of report format: HTML (the default), PDF, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, or Adobe Postscript.

    When you select a report from Tivoli Common Reporting, you are presented with a Report Parameters window that prompts you for information that will be used to generate the report. The title of the parameters window indicates the type of report that will be generated. For a description of the types of reports, see the agent user's guide or product reporting guide for the agent or product with which you are working.

    A Report Parameters window contains some fields common to all reports (for example, timeframe). Other fields are specific to the agent running the reports. For most reports, you select a timeframe, resources, the summarization level of the data, and the attributes to graph, or click to accept all displayed defaults.

  8. Click Run to generate a report matching your parameter definitions.


Results

An hourglass is displayed while Tivoli Common Reporting gathers report data and creates formatted output. After processing finishes, the report is displayed in the Dashboard Application Services Hub.


What to do next

If no report is generated or you see a message indicating that the requested data is unavailable, see the IBM Tivoli Common Reporting User's Guide for information about defining a data source.

If you are viewing an HTML or PDF report, you can also click any embedded links to open drill-through reports. Clicking a drill-through embedded link causes the report to link back to itself with the newly passed parameters or to a secondary (drill-down or summarized) report. Examples of drill-through links include clicking on a bar or line chart or on a table heading.


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