Features of ITRM Report Center

How to Organize Reports

You can organize SAS IT Resource Management reports with the following components:
  • Albums
    Albums are containers for reports to which you want easy access. They can be thought of as point-and-click galleries. When you open an album, it resembles and behaves like a gallery. Galleries and albums differ only in how they are created. An album is created by selecting reports from existing galleries and using the Copy Link to Album icon (copy link to album) that is available from the workspace bar. You do not use a wizard to create or edit it.
  • Galleries
    A gallery is a group of reports that share common filter values. You can organize SAS IT Resource Management reports by creating a gallery that includes all of the reports that meet a specific criterion. For example, you might create a gallery to include all available reports for a particular machine, adapter data source, or keyword.
    A gallery is created with the New Gallery wizard. It is modified by using the Edit Gallery wizard.
    ITRM Report Center also enables you to further subset or filter the reports in a gallery when viewing that gallery. Thus, you can quickly view a smaller set of reports in a gallery to measure and analyze the utilization, availability, performance, and statistical trends of IT resources for your enterprise.
  • Gallery Folders
    A gallery folder is a container for galleries, albums, and other gallery folders. These folders function like typical folders in a tree. You can use these folders to group related galleries, albums, and gallery folders. For example, you might create a single gallery folder to include all of your galleries for DT Perf Sentry reports.
  • Resources
    A resource can be a type of device, machine, system, environment, or other category of IT resources. In the Resource workspace, you can view reports hierarchically by the resource type.

How to View Reports

In ITRM Report Center, the Gallery and Resource workspaces provide four views of the reports that you select. Use the arrow on the taskbar to select the type of display that you want to view. In the following display, My Gallery is opened and the CPU Busy Percent and Run Queue Length report is selected. The flow view is chosen as the format in which to view the report.
Taskbar with Flow Icon Circled
Taskbar with Flow Icon Circled
  • The grid (or table) view displays the reports and their associated metadata in a tabular format. You can quickly scan these reports for similarities and double-click an individual report to view a large image of it in a separate browser window.
    Click Grid Icon to display the reports in the grid view.
    Reports in the Grid (or Table) View
    Reports in the Grid View
    The tile view displays a thumbnail view of each report and enables you to minimize, expand, and arrange the reports in the gallery. Click Tile Icon to display the reports in the tile view.
    Reports in the Tile View
    Reports in the Tile View
  • The flow view displays the reports as moveable pages so that you can navigate through a sequence of reports that are stacked together.
    Click Flow Icon to display the reports in the flow view.
    Reports in the Flow View
    Reports in the Flow View
  • The Preview pane displays a shortened version of the grid view. Select a report to view a thumbnail image of it in your current window.
    Reports in the Preview Pane
    Preview pane

Copying Reports into Albums and E-mailing Reports

ITRM Report Center enables you to copy reports of particular interest into albums. You can also e-mail reports that are in albums.
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