Generating and Maintaining Reports > Report Scope Selections
  
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Report Scope Selections
Each time you generate a report, you can choose parameters to tailor the output.
Several products, such as Capacity Manager and Fabric Manager, offer an Advanced option to specify the unit of measure (such as TB or GB) to be shown in a report. See Units of Measure in Reports. Using the Action menu, detail reports can be adjusted separately to show a unit of measure different than the parent report.
Similarly, for Backup Manager, the Advanced option lists all backup products for which data collection has been licensed in your environment. From this backup product list, you can select relevant backup types and characteristics.
For parameter details, see:
Capacity Manager Scope Selector Settings
Backup Manager Scope Selector Settings
Backup Manager Advanced Scope Selector Settings
Host Scope Selector Settings
Note: Not all reports use all parameters. For example, the Tape Drive Usage and Forecast Report does not need to take into account specific backup events or status, so those options will not be displayed in the scope selector window.
Capacity Manager Scope Selector Settings
The availability of the selections, options within the selections, and default values for the options vary from report to report because not all selections and options apply to all reports.
 
Storage Arrays
Lists all storage arrays that the Data Collectors identified.
Scope
Use this filter to specify what data will be included in a report.
By Host Group. Includes data from default and user‑defined host groups.
By Attribute. Includes data from default and user‑defined attributes or characteristics.
By Clients. Includes data for only specific clients rather than data for host groups.
 
Start Date / End Date
If you want a static report, specify a start and end date in the date format: MM/DD/YYYY. If you want a dynamic report—that is, a report that changes as the underlying data changes—do not specify a start and end date, as the default always represents the current day.
 
Threshold
For Capacity At Risk reports only, limit the report output to a threshold category:
Low
Warning
Critical
Group By
Use the drop-down list to specify how you want the data in the bar charts or tables to be grouped. The available options are dependent on the type of report. Some reports group by time, while others group data by either host, client, or policy.
 
Cascade into sub-groups
The scope selector default is to cascade to all child sub-groups when generating the report. If you prefer to report ONLY on the host group you selected, then uncheck Cascade into sub-groups.
Backup Manager Scope Selector Settings
The availability of selections, options, and default values varies from report to report because not all selections and options apply to all reports.
 
Time Period
The reporting time periods for this report. Your choices range from the last 12 hours to the last 7 years. The options for this parameter depend on the report.
 
Start Date / End Date
 
If you want a static report, specify a start and end date in the date format: MM/DD/YYYY. If you want a dynamic report—that is, a report that changes as the underlying data changes—do not specify a start and end date, as the default always represents the current day.
 
Scope
Use this filter to specify what data will be included in a report.
By Host Group. Includes data from default and user‑defined host groups.
By Attribute. Includes data from default, system and user‑defined attributes or characteristics.
By Clients. Includes data for only specific clients rather than data for host groups.
See also Report Scope.
Event Type
Job types:
All Backup & Restore Events
All Backup Events
Full Backups
Incremental Backups
Restores
 
Group By
Use the drop-down list to specify how you want the data in the bar charts or tables to be grouped. The available options are dependent on the type of report. Some reports group by time, while others group data by either host, client, or policy.
 
Media Status
The Media Status parameter is included in the Tape Media Summary Scope Selector. You can specify which media should be included in the report by selecting one of the following options: All Media, Expired Media, Available Media, In Use Media or Full Media.
The default setting for this parameter is All Media.
 
Job Status
Applies to all backup event‑driven reports. Select from the following event status options:
All Events
Successful Events
Warning Events
Failed Events
 
Backup Policy Name Filter
This filter appears in the Job Summary and Job Volume Summary scope selectors. Enter a backup policy name to filter the report output by backup policy. This enables analysis of job status for a specific policy.
# of Consecutive Errors
Use this filter to exclude consecutive errors. This option comes in handy when troubleshooting by limiting the report to hosts with excessive activity. Select a number from the drop-down list. Only sets of consecutive errors >= the specified number will be included in the report.
 
Dynamic Report Start & End Times
Provides the user with the ability to specify dynamic report start and end day and time. Simply specify the number of days before or after the current day as well as the time for both the start and end day and times to be used to generate the report.
 
Cascade into sub-groups
The scope selector default is to cascade to all child sub-groups when generating the report. If you prefer to report ONLY on the host group you selected, then uncheck Cascade into sub-groups.
Backup Manager Advanced Scope Selector Settings
The availability of selections, options, and default values varies from report to report because not all selections and options apply to all reports.
 
Start Time / Finish Time
Specify the backup/restore event start or finish time to be used when culling the events within the time frame for the report.
For example, if you only want to display events that occurred between 12AM and 6:30AM, then specify those times for the start and finish time parameters so that the application filters the events by those time constraints.
Available in various backup/restore events reports.
 
Time Zone
Enables you to select a specific time zone to normalize the report by any time zone. The default setting for this parameter is the time zone setting of the Management Server.
 
Parent Job Only
This option is available only in the Job Status Summary and Job Summary reports. For NetBackup, the Portal groups the jobs with the same parent-child relationship that NetBackup uses. Some customers prefer to see only the status of the parent jobs, so this option enables that selection.
Backup Window
Select a custom backup window to be applied to the report. Typically, backups begin at the end of the business day, but they do not finish before the end of the day—thereby skewing the success statistics for the day. To more accurately reflect backup SLA metrics, you can re-define a day with a custom backup window. These custom backup windows are defined by the StorageConsole Application Administrator. To create specific backup windows, see About Custom Backup Windows.
Error Code Excludes
Check the Set Error Excludes box and the application will dynamically generate an Error Code ID/Descriptions Dialogue where you can check all the error codes that need to be excluded from the report. Then, click Accept and all the codes will auto‑populate the Exclude Id text box.
Any event which existed with an error code specified in the exclude list will not be included in the resulting report.
This functionality currently is available only for the Consecutive Errors By Client Report.
 
Ignore Retries
Check this box to indicate that retries for backup jobs should not be incorporated in the statistics shown.
Job Types
Refers to the type of backup job. Each backup product has its own set of job types. The list represents the products for which data collection has been licensed for your Portal. Check the job types to be included in the report output.
Examples of Advanced Options Job Types
Job types enable more granular filtering within backup vendor subsystems.
Note: For Veritas NetBackup, a previous job type, Incr Backup, has been replaced with more specific types: Cumulative Incr Backup and Differential Incr Backup. These job types more accurately reflect the backup types.
Host Scope Selector Settings
Certain reports that have been developed using the Dynamic Template Designer, will have the following scope options available.
 
Hosts
Specify hosts to be included in the report scope.
Backup Server Type
The type of host in a backup environment, such as Client or Media Server.
Domain
The domain to which the enterprise object belongs.
External Name
Name of the host that will appear in reports.
Group By
Provides a drop-down list to specify how the data in the charts or tables will be grouped. The available options are dependent on the type of report. Some reports group by time, while others group by either host, server, client, or policy.
Host
Name of the host, as defined in the collected product.
Host Type
Indicates how a host has been commissioned in an enterprise, such as VM Guest, VM Server, VIO Guest, VIO Server, or Other. This selection enables reporting of various types of virtual hosts.
Make
Make of the host, such as Dell.
Maximum legends for Pie Chart
Specify the maximum number of slices for pie chart rendering.
Model
Model of the host, such as Windows-x86.
OS Platform
Host’s OS type, such as Linux or Windows.
OS Version
Version of the host’s operating system.
Product Collected
Find hosts that have been collected from particular subsystem, such as Veritas NetBackup.
Product Group Collected
Find hosts that have been collected by this product group, such as capacity collection.
Product Group Not Collected
Find hosts that have not been collected by this product group, such as capacity collection.
Product Not Collected
Find hosts that have not been from particular subsystem, such as Veritas NetBackup.
SAN-attached hosts only
Check this box if you want to see data for only SAN-attached hosts. When this box is not checked, the report will include VM Guests and hosts that have been collected by other StorageConsole products, such as Backup Manager or Virtualization Manager.
Time Period
Provides a drop-down list to specify a time span, such as last 90 days or previous month.