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Working with Unicenter MP Reports

Web Reports let you view all of your historical performance data through an Internet browser in a way that is meaningful to you. In Unicenter MP, a report can be one of the following:

• Configured reports are out-of-the-box reports you can immediately use to access meaningful information from supported products. For example, you can use the All Windows System Status report to view details about all of the Windows servers monitored by agents from the DSM connected to Unicenter MP.
• Report templates provide a structure and let you select the specific criteria you want to display in your report. You can use report templates to specifically tune the information and create your own configured reports or published reports.

  For example, if you are concerned about x factor within a supported product, you can execute the x factor configured report, which provides summarized information on x factor activity for that product. But if you want to view more specific information on y within the x factor, you can fill in the y within the x factor template provided by that product to define your own configured report, or publish the report into the product tree so you can retrieve it. Web Reports provide several report templates and configured reports across supported products that let you see your data the way you want to see it.

• Published reports are the resulting reports that display the actual report data.

Report data represents only a snapshot in time, and the data is quickly dated after the report is generated. However, you can schedule your reports to run at specific intervals, ensuring that your report data is continually updated.

When you schedule a report, you can specify the date and time on which the report will run. You can specify whether the report will run on certain days of the week, a certain day of the month, or certain months of the year. You can specify what date the report starts running, whether the report runs multiple times in one day, and on what date the report stops running. You can also schedule to send automatic email notifications to any number of users every time a report is published.

You can also launch other interfaces or perform actions on selected objects in reports. When you select an object, the 'Select and' drop down list is populated with the interfaces you can launch for the object and the actions you can perform on it. For example, you can launch the Portal Explorer for an object, or you can open Unicenter Configuration Manager for an agent with the Policy Configuration option.