Scheduling Automatic Reports

TrueSight Operations Management - Hitachi Storage can automatically produce text reports that provide detailed and valuable information about your monitored storage systems.

To schedule automatic reports

1.	Create a new policy or edit an existing policy.

2.	Click Add Monitoring Configuration and scroll down to the Reporting section.

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Scheduling automatic reports

3.	In the Schedule section, indicate the time at which the report(s) must be generated.

4.	Check the Activity report type to automatically generate the following reports:

▪	Disk Array Activity: Reports on Read and Write Bytes for all monitored disk arrays

▪	Controller Activity: Reports on Transfer Bytes for all monitored controllers

▪	Fiber Port Activity: Reports on Transfer Bytes for all monitored fiber ports

▪	Storage Pool Activity: Reports on Read and Write Bytes for all monitored storage pools

▪	Volume Activity: Reports on Read and Write Bytes for all monitored volumes

5.	Check LUNs Mapping Table to automatically generate a mapping table of LUNs to hosts. The .csv file generated for this report consists in the following comma-separated data: Array, Hostname, Host, WWN/IQN, LUN, FC Ports, Size and Status.

6.	Click OK to save your settings.

The generated file(s) are time-stamped and stored in %PATROL_HOME%\log as csv files for the specific time set through the History Retention Period attribute.

Updating a policy that set the scheduling options of a report purges the report configuration variables and stops the report process.

The history retention period can be set from the PATROL Console or from the PATROL Agent using a configuration variable. The default collection (retention) period is one day. Whenever a stored attribute value exceeds its retention period, it is automatically deleted from the attribute history file. Refer to BMC documentation for details.