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 Performance Report transformation that, when executed, generates SAS code to perform the following tasks:

create reports in the SAS Content Server repository
delete older versions of the same reports that have expired
update the ITRM Report Center cache
create a summary in the report job log that shows the URL of all reports generated in SAS Content Server

For more information, see About Performance Report Transformations.

Report jobs can be generated in two ways:

automatically, by using the Adapter Setup and the Add Domain Category wizards
manually, by using the Performance Report transformation that is in the SAS IT Resource Management folder of the Transformations tree in SAS IT Resource Management

Report Jobs Created by the Adapter Setup and Add Domain Category Wizards

The Adapter Setup and Add Domain Category wizards create report jobs that contain Performance Report 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 and Add Domain Category wizards create reporting jobs, see Appendix 4, “Jobs That the Adapter Setup Wizard and Add Domain Category Wizard Create for Domain Categories,” in the SAS IT Resource Management 3.5: 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 Performance Report transformation (Disk Daily) is available from the process flow diagram of the open report job. A similar report job can be created by the Add Domain Category wizard.

Report Job Created by the Adapter Setup Wizard

Using the Adapter Setup or the Add Domain Category wizard is the most convenient way to create report jobs for selected adapters. When generated by the Adapter Setup or Add Domain Category wizard, report jobs use Performance Report 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 Chapter 10, “Adapter Setup Wizard,” and Chapter 11, “Add Domain Category Wizard,” in the SAS IT Resource Management 3.5: Administrator’s Guide.

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