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To create a Resource Usage report, do the following:

1. In the Reports Tree panel, click Resource Usage.
2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report.  For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
3. Select one or more of the following report options:
   

   • Resource Utilization
     The average and maximum amount of CPU and memory use.

   • CPU Performance Graph
     Tracks the performance of a system’s CPU over a specified time period. This information appears as a graph in the report.

   • Multi-CPU
     The percentage of total CPU time used on systems with more than one CPU.

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     If you find the report’s rendered graph too dense due to a large number of CPUs, alternatively generate a Multi-CPU Usage graph while including fewer CPUs.

   • Network I/O
     The average amount of traffic, measured in megabytes per second, that is traveling through the network interfaces. The report also identifies bursts in network activity that may occur over short intervals. This information appears as a graph in the report.
   • Network Errors
     Any errors that have occurred with the physical network interface. The errors can be, for example, collisions or handshake errors between a system and a switch.
   • TCP Retransmits
     Any network services that may not be completing properly because of undue network or system load. This information appears as a graph in the report.
   • Free Memory
     The amount of free memory available to the system. This information appears as a graph in the report.
   • Page Scanning Statistics
     The number of file system pages scanned by the page scanning daemon. This information appears as a graph in the report.
   • Disk Statistics
     The following statistics for each disk on a system:
     
     • percentage of the disk that is busy
     • average queue length
     • number of reads and writes per second
     • number of blocks accessed per second
     • average wait time, in seconds
     • average service time, in seconds

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     If the system for which you are creating a report for has multiple disks, a graph for each disk on the system is generated.

   • File System Capacity
     The amount of free disk space on the system. This information appears as a graph in the report.

   • Workload (Top 10 - CPU)
     The top 10 processes that are consuming CPU time, grouped by user ID, group ID, and process name. This information appears as a graph in the report.

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     This graph does not appear when you generate this report for a VMware ESX system.

   • Workload (Top 10 - Memsize)
     The top 10 processes that consume system memory, based on the total memory size of the processes - including virtual pages and shared memory. This information appears as a graph in the report.

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     This graph does not appear when you generate this report for a VMware ESX system.

   • Workload (Top 10 - RSS)
     The top 10 processes that are consuming physical memory (in KB), as measured by the run-set size (RSS) of the process. This information appears as a graph in the report.

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     This graph does not appear when you generate this report for a VMware ESX system.

   • Network Device Interfaces
     The Resource Usage statistics for all Network Device interfaces associated with the selected Elements. The following statistics are included:

     Port Name	the name of the port
     Type	the type of port
     Usage	the percentage of the port's maximum throughput that was used by inbound and outbound packets
     In Rate	the average throughput of inbound packets, in Mbps
     In Usage	the percentage of the port's maximum throughput that was used by inbound packets
     Out Rate	the average throughput of outbound packets, in Mbps
     Out Usage %	the percentage of the port’s maximum throughput that was used by outbound packets
     Errors #/sec	the average number of errors per second
     Discards #/sec	the average number of packets discarded per second
     Status	the port status

   Optionally, click Select All to generate a report on all of the options listed above.
4. If you selected more than one report option and plan to report on more than one system, you can optionally click the Group report options by system checkbox.
   Selecting this option combines the metrics for each system for which you are generating the report.
5. To generate reports for systems in specific groups, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
6. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
   See Working with Views for more information about views.
7. If you are generating reports for specific systems, select the systems from the List of Systems.
8. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
9. If you want to save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
   See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

1. In the Reports Tree panel, click Multi-System CPU.
2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report.  For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
3. If you want the report to only include data from certain hours during the day, select those hours from the dropdown lists in the Daily Hours section.
   For example, if you want to report to cover the hours from 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., select 1:00 from the Start dropdown list, and 13:00 from the End dropdown list.
4. If you want to generate reports for systems in specific groups, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
5. To generate reports for one or more views, selecft select the groups from the List of Views area.
   See Working with Views for more information about views.
6. If you are generating reports for specific systems in your environment, select them from the List of Systems.
7. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
8. To save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
   See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

To create a CPU Utilization Summary report, do the following:

1. In the Reports Tree panel, click CPU Utilization Summary.
2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
3. Select one of the following options from the Sort by dropdown list to sort the results that up.time returns:
   
   • Average CPU (the default)
   • Hostname
   • # of CPUs
   • CPU Speed
   • Maximum CPU
   • Minimum CPU
   • Average Memory
   • Maximum Memory
   • Minimum Memory
   • Average Page Scan
   • Maximum Page Scan
   • Minimum Page Scan
4. Select Ascending or Descending from the Sort Direction dropdown list.
5. Optionally, in the Minimum sort value for inclusion field enter a value for the sort threshold.
   The report displays items from the Sort By list, whose value is equal to or greater than the value in this field. For example, if you chose # of CPUs from the Sort by list and set this field to 2, the report only displays systems with two or more CPUs.
6. Select one or more of the following CPU statistics at which the report looks:
   
   • sys
     The percentage of CPU time that is used to carry out system processes.
   • usr
     The percentage of CPU time that is used to carry out user processes.
   • wio
     The percentage of CPU time that could be handling processes, but which is waiting for I/O operations to complete.
7. Select one or more of the following statistics on which to report:
• CPU
  The percentage of CPU resources that are used.
• Memory
  The percentage of system memory that is used.

• Page Scans
  The number of page scans per second.

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  The statistic you select must match the sort criteria that you selected in step 4. For example, if your sort criteria is Average CPU you must also select the CPU statistic. Otherwise, an error message appears when you try to generate the report.

8. Optionally, in the Architectures to exclude field enter either the name of a system architecture or a regular expression that up.time uses to ignore certain system architectures when generating the report.
   For example, if you want to exclude all Solaris systems from the report, enter SunOS in the field.

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   up.time determines the architecture of a system by checking the output of the uname -a command on UNIX or Linux, or by analyzing one or both of the following Windows registry keys: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\ WindowsNT\\CurrentVersion HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\ Windows\\CurrentVersion

9. If you want to generate reports for systems in specific groups, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
10. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
11. If you are generating reports for specific systems in your environment, select them from the List of Systems.
12. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
13. To save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
    See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

To generate a CPU Utilization Ratio report, do the following:

1. In the Reports Tree panel, click CPU Utilization Ratio.
2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
3. If you want the report to only include data from certain hours during the day, select those hours from the dropdown lists in the Daily Hours section.
   For example, if you want to report to cover the hours from 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., select 1:00 from the Start dropdown list, and 13:00 from the End dropdown list.
4. Optionally, enter a value in the Highlight ratios over threshold field.
   Any ratios that exceed the value in this field are highlighted in the report. For example, if you enter 2 and a server returns a ratio of 3.5%, that ratio is highlighted.
5. If you want to generate reports for groups of systems, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
6. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
   See Working with Views for more information about views.
7. If you are generating reports for specific systems in your environment, select them from the List of Systems.
8. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
9. To save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
   See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

To create a Wait I/O report, do the following:

1. In the Reports Tree panel, click Wait I/O .
2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
3. If you want the report to only include data from certain hours during the day, select those hours from the dropdown lists in the Daily Hours section.
   For example, if you want to report to cover the hours from 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., select 1:00 from the Start dropdown list, and 13:00 from the End dropdown list.
4. Optionally, enter a value in the Highlight average WIO over threshold field.
   Any system with an average Wait I/O percentage that exceeds the value that you enter in this field is highlighted in red in the report. As well, the following text appears in the header of the report:
   Systems with an Average Wait I/O over x.x% are highlighted
   Where x.x is the percentage that you entered in this field.
5. If you want to generate reports for systems in specific groups, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
6. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
   See Working with Views for more information about views.
7. If you are generating reports for specific systems in your environment, select them from the List of Systems.
8. Select a report generation option.See Report Generation Options for details.
9. Do one of the following:
   
   • Click the Generate Report button.
   • Enter a name for the report in the Save to My Portal As field, and optionally enter text in the Report Description field. Then, click Save Report.
     The report parameters are saved to the My Portal panel. Doing this does not generate the report.
10. To schedule the saved report to run at a specific time or interval, click the Scheduled checkbox.
    See Scheduling Reports for more information on configuring a scheduled report.

To create an Inventory report, do the following:

1. In the Reports Tree panel, click Inventory Report.
2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
3. Optionally select the Don’t List Individual Elements check box to restrict the report to inventory summaries.
4. Optionally select the Group by Selected System Groups check box to organize the report by group.
5. If you want to generate reports for systems in specific groups, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
6. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
   See Working with Views for more information about views.
7. If you are generating reports for specific Elements in your environment, select them from the List of Elements.
8. Select a report generation option.See Report Generation Options for details.
9. Do one of the following:
   
   • Click the Generate Report button.
   • Enter a name for the report in the Save to My Portal As field, and optionally enter text in the Report Description field. Then, click Save Report.
     The report parameters are saved to the My Portal panel. Doing this does not generate the report.
10. To schedule the saved report to run at a specific time or interval, click the Scheduled checkbox.
    See Scheduling Reports for more information on configuring a scheduled report.

To create a Service Monitor Metrics report, do the following:

1. In the Reports Tree panel, click Service Monitor Metrics.
2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
3. If you want to generate reports for systems in specific groups, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
4. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
   See Working with Views for more information about views.
5. If you are generating reports for specific systems in your environment, select them from the List of Elements.
6. Click Go to page 2.
   A table containing the current retained service metrics appears in the Service Metrics subpanel.
7. Click the checkboxes in the Select column to select the variables on which you want to report.
8. Optionally, select one of the following:
   
   • Show all non-ranged metrics on one chart
     This option combines all of the variables you selected in one chart. Any ranged metrics appear in their own charts.
   • Display charts as stacked area
     Each chart in the report has two or more data series stacked on top of each other, rather than the line graph that usually appears in the report.
9. To save the report, do the following:
   
   • Enter a name for the report in the Save to My Portal As field.
   • Optionally, enter text in the Description field.
   • Click Save Report.
     The report parameters are saved to the My Portal panel. Doing this does not generate the report.
10. To schedule the saved report to run at a specific time or interval, click the Scheduled checkbox.
    See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

To create a WebSphere report, do the following:

1. In the Reports Tree panel, click WebSphere.
2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
3. Select one or more of the following report options:
   
   • Thread pool
     A set of counters that report on the number of connection threads that were created or destroyed, that are concurrently active or are hung, that are in the thread pool, or time that are in use.
   • JDBC Connection Pool
     A set of counters that monitor the performance of JDBC data sources.
   • Enterprise Beans
     A set of counters that report the following: load values, response times, and life cycle activities for enterprise Java beans.
   • JVM Runtime
     A set of counters that monitor the performance of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that is running on the WebSphere server.
   • Transaction Manager
     A set of counters that report on the status of global, local, and concurrent transactions.
   • Servlet Session Manager
     A set of counters that report on usage information from the HTTP servlets that are running on the server.
   Optionally, click Select All to generate a report on all of the options listed above.
4. If you selected more than one report option and plan to report on more than one system, you can optionally click the Group report options by system checkbox.
   Selecting this option combines the metrics for each system for which you are generating the report.
5. To generate reports for systems in specific groups, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
6. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
   See Working with Views for more information about views.
7. If you are generating reports for specific systems, select the systems from the List of Systems.
8. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
9. If you want to save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
   See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

To create a WebLogic report, do the following:

1. In the Reports Tree panel, click WebLogic.
2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
3. In the Report Options area, select one or more of the following options:
   
   • Thread pool
     The report charts the number of pending request in the thread pool, as well as the free size of the pool.
   • Server Stats
     The report charts the number of connection requests that WebLogic accepts before refusing additional requests, as well as the number of open sockets to the server.
   • JDBC Connection Pool
     The report charts the number of active and leaked connections to the server, as well as the size of the connection pool, the number of connections that are waiting or delayed, and the number of 
     failures to reconnect to the server.
   • Enterprise Beans
     The report charts the number of Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) that are active or were moved to secondary storage, the number of time that a container can and cannot find an EJB in the cache, as well as the total number of EJBs in the cache.
     
     This report returns information for:
     
     •  Stateful EJBs, which hold data for a client between calls to the EJB. Stateful EJBs can use considerable amount of server resources.
     • Stateless EJBs, which hold data for only one call to the EJB, and then deletes that data. Stateless EJBs use fewer system resources than stateful EJBs
   • JVM Runtime
     The report charts the heap size (in kilobytes) of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) on the WebLogic server, as well as amount memory (in kilobytes) available to the JVM.
   • Transaction Manager
     The report charts the number of transactions that were committed or completed successfully, as well as total number of transactions that are rolled back.
   • Servlets
     The report charts the number of requests that were made to the HTTP servlets that are running on the WebLogic server.
     
     Optionally, click Select All Options to use all of the options that are listed above.
4. If you want to generate reports for groups of systems, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
5. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
   See Working with Views for more information about views.
6. If you are generating reports for specific systems in your environment, select them from the List of Systems and Nodes.
7. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
8. To save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
   See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

To create a VM Sprawl report, do the following:

To create a VM Workload report, do the following:

1. In the Reports Tree panel, click VM Workload.
2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
3. Select the Elements you would like to include in the vSphere Workload report from the following sections where applicable:
   
   • List of vCenter Servers
   • List of ESX Servers
   • List of Datacenters
   • List of Clusters
   • List of Resource Pools
   • List of vApps
   • List of Virtual Machines
4. Select which vSphere Element Summaries to Display.
   For each of the Elements you selected in the previous step, you can display resource usage summaries of their VMware vSphere child objects in the detailed sections of the report.
   For example, if you select a VMware vCenter server Element to be in the report, selecting the Datacenter and Cluster summary options includes summaries for datacenters and clusters that are child objects of the vCenter server. Note that selecting a VMware vSphere child object does not automatically include its own child objects (e.g., ESX servers that are part of a cluster); a selection exclusively includes that specific object.
   Only VMware vSphere child objects that are relevant to the parent are shown:
   
   • if you select the Datacenter summary option, VMware vCenter server Elements included in the report include resource usage summaries for its child datacenter objects
   • if you select the Cluster summary option, VMware vCenter server and datacenter Elements in the report include resource usage summaries for their child cluster objects
   • if you select the ESX Server summary option, datacenter and cluster Elements in the report include resource usage summaries for their child ESX server objects
   • if you select the Resource Pool or vApp summary options, any datacenter, cluster, or ESX server Elements included in this report include resource usage summaries of its top-level resource pools and vApps
   • if you select the Resource Pool or vApp summary options, any parent resource pool or vApp Elements included in this report include resource usage summaries for their child resource pools and vApps
   • if you select the Virtual Machine summary option, ESX servers, resource pools, and vApps included in this report include resource usage summaries for their child VMs
   • if you select the Virtual Machine summary option, datacenters and clusters included in this report include percent-ready and percent-wait summaries for its child VMs
5. In the Report Options section, select whether to Show Overview Charts in the report.
   The overview charts consist of CPU, memory, disk, and network usage overviews for the defined time range.
6. Select whether to Show Resource Utilization in the report.
   The resource utilization shows numeric summary information on CPU Utilization, Memory Utilization, and File System Utilization for the defined time range.
7. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
8. Do one of the following:
   
   • Click the Generate Report button.
   • Enter a name for the report in the Save to My Portal As field, and optionally enter text in the Report Description field. Then, click Save Report.
     The report parameters are saved to the My Portal panel. Doing this does not generate the report.
9. To schedule the saved report to run at a specific time or interval, click the Scheduled checkbox.
   See Scheduling Reports for more information on configuring a scheduled report.

To create a VM Workload (legacy) report, do the following:

1. In the Reports Tree panel, click VM Workload (legacy).
2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
3. In the Report Options section, select one of the following:
   
   • Workload Profile - CPU
     The percentage of CPU time that is used by a VMware instance. This is a percentage of the available maximum amount of CPU time. This ensures that all of the CPU usage figures add up to the overall CPU usage of the server.
   • Workload Profile - Memory
     The amount of physical memory, in kilobytes, that is used by a VMware instance.
   • Workload Profile - Disk IO
     The amount of the disk I/O capacity, in kilobytes per second, that is used by a VMware instance.
   • Workload Profile - Network IO
     The amount of the network I/O capacity, in kilobits per second, that is used by a VMware instance.
   • Workload Profile - % Ready
     The amount of time that one or more instances running on an ESX server is ready to run, but cannot run because it cannot access the processor on the ESX server.
   • Workload Profile - % Used
     The percentage of CPU time that an instance running on an ESX server is using.
4. If you want to generate reports for systems in specific groups, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
5. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
   See Working with Views for more information about views.
6. If you are generating reports for specific systems in your environment, select them from the List of Elements.
7. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
8. Do one of the following:
• Click the Generate Report button.
• Enter a name for the report in the Save to My Portal As field, and optionally enter text in the Report Description field. Then, click Save Report.
  The report parameters are saved to the My Portal panel. Doing this does not generate the report.
9. To schedule the saved report to run at a specific time or interval, click the Scheduled checkbox.
   See Scheduling Reports for more information on configuring a scheduled report.

To create a VM Density report, do the following:

1. In the Reports Tree panel, click VMware Infrastructure Density.
2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
3. In the Report Options section, indicate whether you want to Include Charts for Individual ESX Servers by selecting or clearing the check box.
   When this option is enabled, a separate chart with VM counts is created for each ESX server that is included in the report.
4. In the Report Options section, select the level of granularity at which the virtual infrastructure density information is presented (i.e., daily, weekly, or monthly).
5. If you want to generate reports for groups of systems, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
6. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
   See Working with Views for more information about views.
7. If you are generating reports for specific systems in your environment, select them from the List of Systems and Nodes.
8. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
9. To save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
   See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

To create a Datastore Capacity Growth report, do the following:

1. In the Reports Tree panel, click LPAR Workload.
2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
3. Select one or more of the following report options:
   
   • CPU Workload
     The CPU entitlements of the LPARs, and their use of the entitlements.
   • Memory Workload
     The amount of memory, in kilobytes, that is used by the LPARs on the system.
   • Disk IO Workload
     The amount of data, measured in kilobytes per second, that is read from and written to the disk by the LPARs on the system.
   • Network IO Workload
     The amount of data, measured in kilobytes per second, that is sent and received over the network interface by the LPARs on the system.
     Optionally, click Select All to generate a report on all of the options that are listed above.
4. If you selected more than one report option and plan to report on more than one system, you can optionally click the Group report options by system checkbox.
   Selecting this option combines the metrics for each system for which you are generating the report.
5. To generate reports for systems in specific groups, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
6. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
   See Working with Views for more information about views.
7. If you are generating reports for specific systems, select the systems from the List of Systems.
8. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
9. If you want to save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
   See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.