Reporting Jobs and Objects Created by the Adapter Setup Wizard

The Adapter Setup wizard programmatically creates reporting jobs for the domain categories and time periods that you might select. These reporting jobs are named using the convention <domain subcategory> <time period> (such as Daily, Weekly, and Monthly)> Reporting, and they are stored in the same domain category folder as the aggregation and information map jobs.

Reporting jobs include Gallery transformations that use report definitions and information maps to generate reports using data for IT resources. When a reporting job executes, it creates the necessary report packages and reports based on the information maps that are in the same domain category folder. The reports are then saved as graphic files (such as HTML or .png files) in the SAS Content Server that you selected in the Adapter Setup wizard. For more information about the reporting jobs that the Adapter Setup wizard creates for specific domain categories and time periods, see How to Determine Whether the Adapter Setup Wizard Will Create Reporting Jobs for Your Selections.

After a reporting job is deployed, scheduled, and executed, the resulting report output is available for viewing with Gallery Manager. Gallery Manager enables you to access, filter, and manage your report content from a Web browser. For more information, see Working with the Gallery Manager.

SAS IT Resource Management supplies predefined report definitions for several domain categories and time periods. These report definitions include information such as the names of the variables, the report style, and other attributes that are used to build graphical reports from your IT resource data. The Adapter Setup wizard uses these prepackaged report definitions in the reporting jobs that it creates for the domain categories and time periods that you select.

If you select a domain category and time period for which SAS IT Resource Management supplies report definitions, then the Adapter Setup wizard creates the appropriate reporting jobs. To determine whether the Adapter Setup wizard is going to create reporting jobs for the domain category and time periods that you selected, you can view the Summary page of the wizard before you select Finish.

You can also determine whether the Adapter Setup wizard is going to create reporting jobs based on your selections by viewing the list of supplied report definitions for a given domain category and time period. If SAS IT Resource Management supplies report definitions for a given adapter, domain category, and time period, then the Adapter Setup wizard creates a reporting job for those selections based on the configuration level that you selected. If there are no supplied report definitions for a given adapter, domain category, and time period, then the Adapter Setup wizard does not create reporting jobs for those selections.

You can also create your own report definitions, Gallery transformations, and reporting jobs. You can create reporting jobs to supplement those that the Adapter Setup wizard creates. You can also add reporting jobs for the domain categories and time periods for which the Adapter Setup wizard does not create reporting jobs. Report definitions that you create should be stored in the User Defined folder within the domain category folder. For more information about how to create your own report definitions, see About the ITRM Gallery Task.

If you decide to create your own reporting objects and jobs, maintain consistency and efficiency by using the same naming conventions and folder structure that SAS IT Resource Management uses for supplied reports. For more information, see How to Create or Modify Your Own Batch Reports and Naming Standards and Location of Objects.

The Adapter Setup wizard does not run the jobs that it creates. You must run the resulting jobs as needed. These jobs depend on one another to process the raw data for reporting. For example, the aggregation jobs include aggregations that rely on the staged tables that are generated when the staging job is run. As a result, each job should be run only after the jobs that it depends on have been run.

The following list shows the types of jobs that the Adapter Setup wizard creates and the dependencies of each. Each job type in the list is dependent on the job type that precedes it.