HP Reporter Integration

HP Reporter is a flexible management reporting solution for the distributed IT environment. A license for HP Reporter software is included with HPOM. In addition, HPOM provides two report packages, which contain report templates for use with HP Reporter:

• The HP Operations Smart Plug-in for Microsoft Windows Operating System reports package provides reports on the performance of Windows and Internet Information Server.
• The HP Operations Reports for Windows reports package provides event and service reports. These provide short-, medium-, or long-term views of your IT environment. You can use the reports, for example, to analyse trends in the following ways:
  • Identify potential bottlenecks in your IT system, so that you can take action before problems appear
  • Make accurate predictions for future upgrades
  • Collect accurate information to measure service levels.

NOTE:
The HP Operations Reports for Windows support unplanned outages. The following reports provide information on unplanned outages:

• Node Outage Messages
• OutageMess Overview
• Service Outage Messages

Other reports exclude information on nodes and services that are in unplanned outage mode.

The following reports exclude information on nodes and services that are in unplanned outage mode:

• AppSeverity
• AckOper
• AppMessTrend
• ConfMessUnassMess
• ConfMessUnassMessOP
• ConfMessTTandITI
• MessGrpTrend
• MessLoadOper
• MessSeverityTrend
• NodeGrpTrend
• NodeSeverity
• PeakHours
• ServTrend
• ServSeverity
• TopShakyServices

HPOM also enables you to access any of the other reports that HP Reporter generates, directly from the HPOM console.

You can install HP Reporter on the same computer as your HPOM management server, or on a different computer. For details of the versions supported for integration with HPOM, see the support matrix at HP Software Support Online. You may need to configure HP Reporter with details of the HPOM management server, and install the HPOM reports packages.

After you configure HP Reporter integration, the Reports snap-in appears in the console tree. HP Reporter adds your HPOM managed nodes and node groups to its database of discovered systems, and begins to gather data from them. HP Reporter uses the gathered data and report templates to generate reports.

HP Reporter generates some reports that aggregate data from all discovered nodes. It is also often useful to have a report that aggregates data from a particular subset of nodes. HPOM enables you to associate a report template with a node group using the console. HP Reporter then generates the reports for the node group, and any subgroups. However, HP Reporter runs jobs that gather data and generate reports according to a schedule. (This is by default once a night, but you can reschedule the jobs and start them on demand from the HP Reporter interface.) Therefore, after you make changes to nodes and node groups in the HPOM console, there is a delay before HP Reporter updates the reports to show the changes.

You can also associate reports with services, and service types using the HPOM console. This does not configure to HP Reporter to generate any new reports, but enables you to more easily access appropriate reports for those services.

NOTE:
HP Reporter also enables you to generate reports for individual nodes. However, you can access these only from the HP Reporter interface.

Related Topics:

• Configuring outage information
• Configure HP Reporter integration
• Show reports
• Node group reports and graphs properties
• Configure reports and graphs for services
• Configure reports and graphs for service types
• Choosing a Windows OS SPI report