Scheduling Reports

Administrators can schedule the production of activity reports and LUNs Mapping Table reports every day at a specific time. The information retrieved as a text file can later be used by other tools such as BMC Capacity Optimization.

To schedule reports:

1.Right-click the KM main icon > KM Commands > Reporting > Reports Scheduling. The Reports Scheduling wizard appears:

Scheduling Reports

2.Specify the time when the reports are automatically generated

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

▪Storage Units Activity: Reports on Read and Write Bytes for all the monitored subsystems

▪Fiber Ports Activity: Reports on ECKD, PPRC, and SCSI Read and Write Bytes and on Total Received and Sent Bytes for all monitored fiber ports

▪Ranks Activity: Reports on Read and Write Bytes for all monitored ranks.

▪Volumes Activity: Reports on Read and Write Bytes for all monitored disks and volumes.

4.Select LUNs Mapping Table to list mapped and unmapped LUNs

5.Click OK.

The generated file(s) are time-stamped and stored in %PATROL_HOME%/log for the specific time set through the History Retention Period parameter.

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 parameter value exceeds its retention period, it is automatically deleted from the parameter history file. Refer to BMC documentation for details.