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How to Collect Data

To collect data, perform the following steps:

1. Enable your data feed regions.

   You need only do this once on each data feed region. When the region restarts, it remembers the changes.

2. View the WebCenter report examples and choose the report that you want.
3. Determine the type of report data you need to collect to generate this report.
4. Read the appropriate section for the type of data you want to collect, and perform the steps on all data feed regions.
5. Wait at least a few hours. On each data feed region, check that the data you specified is being correctly collected.
6. After about a day, run the report with a near-time hourly interval timeframe, TODAY or YESTERDAY

   Note: For Analysis reports, the PromptGenerator service must run before newly-monitored resource names appear in the criteria. This service runs at your daily housekeeping time. In general, overview reports do not use the prompts, and a new resource should show in a related Overview report as soon as the hourly data arrives.

7. (Optional) Determine why a report has all or some data missing.
8. Schedule the report to run with the criteria and timeframe that you want.
9. Repeat steps 2-8 for of all the reports that you want.