Adding Reporting Fields

For Windows systems

The quickest way to add reporting fields to a Windows system is to apply the Advanced Reporting (Data Warehouse) Reporting template which contains five pre-defined, commonly-used performance reporting fields:

  • Processor: % Processor Time
  • Win32_LogicalDisk: FreeSpace
  • Win32_LogicalDisk: Size
  • Win32_PageFileUsage: AllocatedBaseSize
  • Win32_PageFileUsage: CurrentUsage
NOTE: See Reporting Templates for more information.

Reporting fields are used to determine what performance data should be collected from each system in order to form the basis of performance reporting for this device. The available fields are based upon the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Monitor. An unlimited number of user-defined fields can be added for each system.

To Add a Reporting Field:
  1. From the Reporting Panel, click Add Field. The Select Example Device dialog is displayed.
  2. Select a device to use as the example device on which the Performance Monitoring data used for the basis of the report is based. The WMI Reporting Data dialog is displayed.
NOTE: See WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) Monitor for more information relating to the options on this dialog.

For AIX and Linux systems

The quickest way to add reporting fields to a Windows system is to apply the AIX Advanced Reporting (Data Warehouse) template and Linux Advanced Reporting (Data Warehouse) template which contain five pre-defined, commonly-used performance reporting fields:

  • CPU: CPU Load
  • Filesystem: Filesystem Space Used %
  • Memory: Page File Used %
  • Memory: Physical Memory Used %
  • Process By Name: CPU Usage %

Reporting fields are used to determine the performance data to be collected from each system in order to form the basis of performance reporting for this device. The available default fields are based upon the CPU, Filesystem and Memory Monitor. An unlimited number of user-defined fields can be added for each system and can also include Volume and Process Reporting options.

To Add a Reporting Field:

  1. From the Reporting Panel, click Add Field. The Select Category dialog is displayed.
  2. Select a Performance Category from any of the following options: 
  • CPU
  • Filesystem
  • Memory
  • Volume Group
  • Physical Volume
  • Logical Volume
  • Process
The Select Example Device dialog is displayed
  1. Select a device to use as the example device on which the Performance Monitoring data used for the basis of the report is based.

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