Section 1, Task 3: Create a Test PDB and Process, Reduce, and Report on Data
Action 3: Generate one or more reports on the date in your test PDB

List the supplied report definitions that are based on the tables in your test PDB.

Follow this path from the IT Service Vision main window:

Reports -> Manage Report Definitions

IT Service Vision displays a list of supplied report definitions that are based on the tables in your PDB.

The name of each report definition follows a naming convention. A simplified description of the naming convention can be found in Shared Appendix 7: Supplied Reports Naming Convention. Each report definition is intended for a specific audience. For details about the associated audiences, refer to the Macro Reference documentation for IT Service Vision.

Note: If there are no supplied reports for your collector/data source, make at least one report definition. For information on creating report definitions, in the Manage Report Definitions window, select Online Help -> Help on this window. For convenience use the Plots report style. You may find this table helpful; it describes the mechanics of creating a simple report definition in the Manage Report Definitions window.

Select
Select Table's right arrow -> Levels Detail -> level.table DETAIL. TABLENAME -> OK
Select Variable's right arrow -> Variable Types Analysis -> Variable Name -> Add
Attributes -> Variable Name -> type Variable Label Variable Label-> OK
Variable Types Statistics -> MEAN -> Add
Variable Types By -> MACHINE -> Add
Variable Types X Variable -> DATETIME -> Add
Attributes -> DATETIME -> type Variable Label Date -> OK -> OK
Summary Time Period's right arrow -> AS IS -> OK
click on image under Current Report Style->Report Style Plots -> Report Sub-Style Line -> OK

To save this report definition your SASUSER.ITSVRPT folder, follow this path from the Manage Report Definitions window: File -> Save Report Definition.

Read about the report and view an example report for each report definition.

Note: This will not apply if you just created a new report definition above. Continue at the bullet "Select and run...".

  1. Read the purpose of the report.

    From the list of supplied reports, follow this path:

    select the report definition(s) -> Locals -> Show report explanation

    IT Service Vision displays the explanation in a separate window. Note whether the report requires some preparation (data manipulation) prior to running it. (This is listed after the heading PreReqs in the Explanation.) In a later step you will run the reports that do not require setup. Close the window.

  2. View sample output from the report.

    Follow this path for the same report definition:

    Locals -> Show sample output

    Close the window.

Select and run each report definition that does not require setup.

Follow this path:

select the report definition -> Run

OVNV Note: Reports HRBTC01 and HRBTC02 contain information on IP gateway data. If your PDB does not have gateway data, you can ignore these reports definitions. If you try to run these report definitions and there is no gateway data in your PDB, a window pops up and displays a message that no observations apply to this report.

Save the report results (graph report or text report) of running the report definition.

At the command prompt, type BUILD. At the SAS BUILD window select WORK under the Libraries scroll box. Then select GSEG in the Catalogs scroll box. You new report definition titles are displayed in the Entries scroll box.

To save your report definitions:

select all reports to be saved -> File -> Copy...

In the To selection of the Copy dialog box, type the name of the SAS catalog where you want to save the report (use SASUSER.GSEG for now). Then select File and End.

To return to the Manage Report Definitions window, select File and End.

Note: By default, when you save a graphics or text report, IT Service Vision stores them in your SASUSER library. In the next section you will learn how to save them elsewhere.