About Report Jobs

What is a Report Job?

Report jobs can be run from the SAS IT Resource Management client or can be deployed and run in a batch process. When run, these jobs create reports and save them to the SAS Content Server. Each report job includes a Gallery transformation that, when executed, generates SAS code to perform the following tasks:

create reports
delete and replace associated reports that have expired
save report output to the SAS Content Server
update the Gallery Manager cache
create a summary that shows the URL of all reports generated in SAS Content Server and, at the end of the report job, print that summary

For more information, see About Gallery Transformations.

Report jobs can be generated in two ways:

automatically, by using the Adapter Setup wizard
manually, by using the Gallery transformation that is in the ITRM Transformations folder of the Transformations tree in SAS IT Resource Management

Report Jobs Created by the Adapter Setup Wizard

The Adapter Setup wizard creates report jobs that contain Gallery transformations for several of the adapters and domain categories that SAS IT Resource Management supports. For more information about the specific adapters and domain categories for which the Adapter Setup wizard creates reporting jobs, see the “Jobs That the Adapter Setup Wizard Creates for Domain Categories” appendix in the SAS IT Resource Management: Administrator's Guide.

For example, the following image shows the report job that the Adapter Setup wizard created for the Server Disk domain category of the DT Perf Sentry adapter. The report job (Disk Daily Reporting) is located in the Domain Categories subfolder of the IT data mart folder. The Gallery transformation (Disk Daily) is available from the process flow diagram of the open report job.

Report Job Created by the Adapter Setup Wizard

Using the Adapter Setup wizard is the most convenient way to create report jobs for selected adapters. When generated by the Adapter Setup wizard, report jobs use Gallery transformations that reference supplied report definitions. These report definitions provide extensive domain intelligence about IT resources for the supported adapters. For more information, see the “Adapter Setup Wizard” chapter in the SAS IT Resource Management: Administrator's Guide.

However, you might choose to create your own report jobs or modify those that the Adapter Setup wizard creates. For more information, see Working with Report Jobs.