Report Interactions

Report Fundamentals

The reports and report templates you save to the Report Manager eliminate the need to repeatedly create individual graphs and tables each time you want to view data. Chaining enables you to add related attachments to a report.

• Reports - Enable you to create and save a collection of attachments for specific devices resources or for specific objects resources so that you can retrieve the same data from the same resources at any time.

  From the Report attachment, click , and then select one of the following management options.

  • Chain -

    • Quick Chain - Select to create a (child) chained attachment that contains the next logical set of data that is related to the current attachment (not available from some attachment types). The icon and source display the attachment source to create.

    • Custom - Select to create a custom chained attachment. The Report Attachment Wizard appears pre-populated with the attachment settings from the current attachment (not available from Group Metrics, FlowFalcon, and Status Maps attachments).

    • Simple Item - Select to add a separator simple attachment or to add a text simple attachment to the report.

  • Get CSV Summary (FlowFalcon attachments) - Select to export summary data from the FlowFalcon attachment table to a .csv format.

  • Get CSV - Click to export the attachment data to a .csv format. For FlowFalcon attachments this exports all granular data points in the graph to a .csv format.

  • Edit - Click to display the Report Attachment Wizard where you can edit the attachment content.

  • Change Timespan - Click to select the time span for the attachment and all of its (child) chained attachments, when applicable. If you change the report level time span after you set the attachment level time span, the attachment level time span updates to the report level time span.

  • Copy – Click to add a copy of the attachment to the report.

  • Delete - Click to delete the attachment from the report.

• Report Templates - Similar to reports with the added ability to define template attachments that do not have a specific resource. You define the report template properties to enable template attachments to derive applicable devices from the Device Summary workflows or to derive applicable objects from the Object Summary workflows. Report templates enable you to create a report that has template attachments without a specific resource and attachments with specific resources.

  From the Report Template attachment, click , and then select one of the following management options.

  • Chain -

    • Quick Chain - Select to create a (child) chained attachment that contains the next logical set of data that is related to the current attachment (not available from some attachment types). The icon and source display the attachment source to create.

    • Custom - Select to create a custom chained attachment. The Report Attachment Wizard appears pre-populated with the attachment settings from the current attachment (not available from Group Metrics, FlowFalcon, and Status Maps attachments).

    • Simple Item - Select to add a separator simple attachment or to add a text simple attachment to the report.

  • Get CSV Summary (FlowFalcon attachments) - Select to export summary data from the FlowFalcon attachment table to a .csv format.

  • Get CSV - Click to export the attachment data to a .csv format. For FlowFalcon attachments this exports all granular data points in the graph to a .csv format.

  • Edit - The option is unavailable.

  • Change Timespan - Click to select the time span for the attachment and all of its (child) chained attachments, when applicable. If you change the report level time span after you set the attachment level time span, the attachment level time span updates to the report level time span.

  • Copy – The option is unavailable.

  • Delete - Click to delete the attachment from the report.

  The drop-down options are only available where applicable.

• Chaining - Enables you to use the settings from an attachment to create a related attachment.

There are four fundamental parts to define a report.

• Report Manager - Enables you to manage reports, to manage report templates, and is an access point to all of the following report management workflows.

• Report Attachment Wizard - Enables you to create and maintain the attachments which are the content of the report that contain the tables, graphs, and charts of data.

• Report - Appears on a new browser tab to enable you to define the attachment locations, chain attachments, use the report in a slide show, mark the report as a favorite or mark the report as a dashboard, change the data refresh rate, define the report time span, export the report to a .pdf format, export an attachment to a .csv format, and to lock a report to prevent the addition of new attachments.

• Report Properties - Enables you to define the overall report name, view the report structure, and define the report sharing permissions. The Report Properties enables you to define report email delivery and FTP delivery settings and to define report template access settings.

Report Title Bar Settings

The report title bar provides the following controls and icons.

Click the report name to display the Report Properties that enables you to edit the report name and other report properties.

- Click next to the report name to present a list of your favorite reports. Select the favorite report to display.

- Click next to and select a frequency to present the report in a slide show presentation that cycles through your favorite reports at the frequency you select.

- Click to display the Report Attachment Wizard where you define a new attachment for the report.

- Click next to and select one of the following options.

• For report templates, select Template Item to add a template attachment to the report template from the Report Attachment Wizard.

• Select Custom to add an attachment to the report from the Report Attachment Wizard.

• Select Simple Item to display a pop-up that enables you to add a simple attachment to the report.

  • On the pop-up, click the Type drop-down and select Separator to add a horizontal divider to the report.

  • On the pop-up, click the Type drop-down and select Text to add text to the report.

- Click to refresh the data in the report.
- Click next to and select a frequency to have the data in the report refresh at the frequency you select. You can define attachment level refresh rates from the title bar on each attachment.
- Click to display the following report management options.

• Add - Click and select one of the following submenu options.

  • For report templates, select Template Item to add a template attachment from the Report Attachment Wizard.

  • Select Custom to add an attachment from the Report Attachment Wizard.

  • Select Simple Item to add a separator simple attachment or a text simple attachment.

• Edit Report - Click to display the Report Properties where you can change the overall report name, view the report structure, and define the report sharing permissions. The Report Properties also enables you to define report email delivery and FTP delivery settings and to define report template access settings.

• Save - Click to save all changes you make in the report to the Report Manager for future use.

• Save As - Click to save a copy of the report with the latest updates to the Report Manager for future use. A pop-up appears to enable you to enter the name of the new report. When a user who is not the owner of a report makes a copy of the report, the user who made the copy becomes the owner of the copy.

• Mark/Unmark as Favorite - Click to make the report a favorite or to unmark the report as a favorite. Not applicable for report templates.

  • - Report is not one of your favorite reports.

  • - Report is a favorite and appears on the Welcome Dashboard and in slide show presentations.

• Mark/Unmark as Dashboard - Click to make the report your custom dashboard or to unmark the report as your custom dashboard. Not applicable for report templates.

  • - Report is not your custom dashboard.

  • - Report is your custom dashboard and appears when you log on and when you click .

• Export as PDF - Click to export the report to a .pdf format.

• Lock/Unlock Report - Click to lock the report or to unlock the report. When you open a report from the Report Manager, the report is locked to prevent a report you detach from single report workflows from becoming an attachment in this report (the detached report either appears as an attachment in another open report or as an attachment in a new report). When you unlock a report, reports you detach from single report workflows appear as attachments in the existing report (the report typically is open on a different browser window). Not applicable for report templates.

• Change Time Span - Click to select the time span for all attachments in the report. You can define attachment level time spans from the title bar on each attachment.

• Help – Click to display page specific online help.

Attachment Title Bar Settings and Chaining

Each attachment in a report provides controls to enable you to manage the data in each individual attachment. Chaining is the ability to use the settings from one attachment to create a related attachment that drills down to more specific data or provides related data for the same set of devices, objects, interfaces, etc. Changes you make to settings such as refresh rate and time frame on the (parent) attachment pass down to all of its (children) chained attachments.

Click the attachment name to make the field editable and change the attachment name.

The following icons appear on the attachment title bar to enable you to change the attachment width.

• - Click to reduce the size of the attachment down to one or two columns wide.

• + Click to expand the size of the attachment up to two or three columns wide.

• X Click to remove the attachment from the report.

Each attachment provides an icon to adjust the refresh rate and a gear icon.

- Click to refresh the data in the attachment and all of its chained attachments, when applicable.

- Click next to and select a frequency to have the data in the attachment (and all of its chained attachments, when applicable) refresh at the frequency you select. This refresh rate works in conjunction with the report refresh rate that you set from the report title bar and is most useful when you want the data in an attachment to refresh more frequently than the other data in the overall report.

• If you set the report refresh rate to 5 Minutes and you set the attachment refresh rate to 30 Seconds, the report refreshes every five minutes and the one attachment refreshes every 30 seconds.

• If you set the report refresh rate to 30 Seconds and you set the attachment refresh rate to 5 Minutes, the entire report (including the attachment) refreshes every 30 seconds.

- Click to display the following attachment management options.

• Chain -
  

  • Quick Chain - Select to create a (child) chained attachment that contains the next logical set of data that is related to the current attachment (not available from some attachment types). The icon and source display the attachment source to create.

  • Custom - Select to create a custom chained attachment. The Report Attachment Wizard appears pre-populated with the attachment settings from the current attachment (not available from Group Metrics, FlowFalcon, and Status Maps attachments).

  • Simple Item - Select to add a separator simple attachment or to add a text simple attachment to the report.

• Get CSV Summary (FlowFalcon attachments) - Select to export summary data from the FlowFalcon attachment table to a .csv format.

• Get CSV - Click to export the attachment data to a .csv format. For FlowFalcon attachments this exports all granular data points in the graph to a .csv format.

• Edit - Click to display the Report Attachment Wizard where you can edit the attachment content.

• Change Time Span - Click to select the time span for the attachment and all of its (child) chained attachments, when applicable. If you change the report level time span after you set the attachment level time span, the attachment level time span updates to the report level time span.

• Copy – Click to add a copy of the attachment to the report.

• Delete - Click to delete the attachment from the report.

Click the title bar of an attachment and drag it to another location in the report.

Time Change Considerations

Many countries shift their clocks forward one hour in the spring and back one hour in the fall. SevOne NMS displays the time label based on what would have been the correct underlying UTC time zone data.

The following example uses the 2020 United States dates with a New York time zone for the time changes.

On March 8th, 2020 the clock is set forward one hour and there are 23 hours in the day. The time label in reports displays:

• 12AM--1AM--3AM New York

On November 1st, 2020 the clock is set back one hour and there are 25 hours in the day. The time label in reports displays:

• 12AM--1AM--1AM--2AM--3AM New York

In calendar view, March 8th will have 23 hours and November 1st will have 25 hours.

The display includes EST/EDT or EDT/EST depending on the side of the time zone when the date format includes this information.