Reports are a critical tool for network management. You can run any report from NetMRI's bundled set of standard reports, and devise custom reports of your own to supplement the standard ones and add new functionality to the reporting system.
NetMRI's Report Manager provides quick visibility into all reporting tasks, scheduled reporting jobs, inactive jobs and completed jobs. Report Manager notifies you when NetMRI is producing a large, demanding report, and indicates the current progress level of the report. The Report Manager allows cancellation of reporting tasks that use unacceptable levels of appliance resources.
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The Report Manager (Reports –> Report Manager tab) lists all Active and Inactive Reports for the current NetMRI appliance, and enables monitoring of currently running and active reports.
The Report Manager divides into two sections:
Active Reports, lists currently running and scheduled Report jobs. Click the Cancel button to stop currently running report jobs
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- Inactive Reports, lists all recently executed, cancelled and paused Report jobs. Click the Delete button to remove any entries in Inactive reports.
Two or more Reports reports can simultaneously execute in the Active Reports queue. The Active Reports queue displays the following information:
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To set the permissible value for concurrently running Reports: select Settings icon –> General Settings –> Advanced Settings and page to the Reports category. The default value is 2, supporting two Reports to run concurrently in the appliance. For most applications, Infoblox recommends keeping the default.
To start a report that is waiting in the Active Reports queue: select the desired report and click Run Next. The selected report will start when another Report is already running.
To stop execution of a currently running Report: select the Report in the Active Reports pane, and click Cancel. To delete a Report from the Inactive Reports pane: select the Reportreport, and click Delete.
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Note: The Inactive Reports page has an expiration of seven days, after which the oldest Inactive Reports in the list are deleted.
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The Views drop-down list resides on the top right of the Report Manager panes. Its functionality is similar to other data tables in NetMRI. You can use this labor-saving feature to save the exact appearance and arrangement of the Report Manager tables. Views does not save the reports themselves or the results within the table — it saves the tabular arrangement, including all columns' sort settings,
table table filtering and any resizing of columns as a template that can be applied to the current data set. An Auto Refresh feature may be turned on or off in any Report View.
To turn off Auto Refresh for Active or Inactive Reports: click the Turn Auto Refresh Off button above either table.
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After arranging and sorting the Active Reports or Inactive Reports, save the arrangement in a View for future use without requiring subsequent resorting of report data columns.
To save a Report View: click the Views drop-down list.
To save either Reports table as an Excel-compatible .CSV file: click the CSV Export icon just above the Active Reports or Inactive Reports table.
To Manage Saved Views: click the Views drop-down list and choose Manage Views. A Manage Views dialog appears, listing the currently saved Views.
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All standard reports allow Running running and Schedulingscheduling. You can run any report at any time, and schedule them to run at chosen time intervals. Custom reports, which you create, also offer exporting, editing and deletion features.
Exporting, editing and deletion cannot be performed on the standard reports bundled with the appliance.
To schedule a report, do complete the following:
- In the Report Gallery, choose hover over the report you want to schedule.
- Under the report's thumbnail, click Run or Schedule. A configuration /scheduling window opens for the selected report ("Network History Report," for example).
- To select a group in In the Device Groups list, double- click any group name. Add multiple group names if neededa group name or click several groups holding the Ctrl key.
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Note: To run the report against a specific device, click the Devices tab. The following section, Running Reports Against Individual Devices discusses this in more detail.
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Running reports against individual devices allows you to check specific firewalls, routers, switches or other network entities. For example, you can use the Chassis Inventory report to check a specific router for its installed collection of interface cards. Use the VLAN Interface Summary report against a specific Ethernet switch or subset of switches inside a Device Group.
- In the Report Gallery, choose hover over the report you want to run.
- Under the report's thumbnail, click Run.
- Click the Devices tab.
- Choose a Date and Period from the respective drop-down lists.
- From the Device Group drop-down list, select the device group from which the desired device is chosen for the report. The list below is populated with the devices belonging to the group.
- Click the Add icon to add a chosen device to the Selected Devices list for the new Reportreport.
- Click Run.
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To copy a scheduled report job: Click the Copy button, enter a name for the report, then click OK.
To edit a scheduled report job, do the following:
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The Report Gallery (Reports tab–> Report Gallery) lists the standard and custom reports that are available in the current NetMRI instance.
The gallery contains a series of thumbnails, each representing a report type. NetMRI bundles a pre-defined set of reports, gathered into a series of categories. Some categories will or will not appear depending on your license type.
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- In the Report Gallery tab, hover over the report you want to schedule.
- Under the report's thumbnail, click the Schedule link. The report scheduling wizard opens.
- In the Device Groups list, click the group name or click several groups holding the Ctrl key.
To deselect a group, click the group name again. - To select one or more devices from a device group for the report, click the Devices tab. Select a device group, and then click the plus icon for a specific device or devices.
- Click Next.
- Change the Report Name as needed.
- The To Emails field is pre-populated with a default e-mail address, which can be changed. You can enter multiple e-mail addresses (each address must be separated with commas).
- The To Users field is pre-populated with e-mail addresses for all NetMRI users. You cannot edit this list.
- Select an Output Format.
- Specify a Recurrence Pattern, then select scheduling options as shown for the recurrence pattern.
- Click Next.
- Review the scheduled report specifications. Click Previous to return to steps needing to be revised.
- If the specifications are correct, click Schedule. The job is listed in the Scheduled Reports tab.
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The MAC Address Summary report provides a survey of the complement of MACs in the switched network for the defined date range.
Two primary categories comprise the count: Infrastructure and End Station. NetMRI counts End Station MAC addresses by studying the ARP tables or forwarding tables of other networking devices. These end stations count towards the total count.
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For Port Saturation report definitions, data collected during a reporting time window is displayed as a single bar in the Port Saturation Summary report graphs. You can filter data in the time window by criteria such as business hours, off-hours, etc.
Port: A port is included in the Port Saturation Report if it meets the following criteria:
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Port Availability: A port is available (unused) if it has zero neighbors (usually corresponding to no bar in a graph) for the reporting time window.
% Available: The ratio of Available Ports to Total Ports for the reporting time window.
Port Consumption: A port is consumed (used) if it has one or more neighbors at any time during the reporting time window.
% Consumed: The ratio of Consumed Ports to Total Ports for the reporting time window.
Device Usage: The average of all port usages for those ports meeting criteria for port inclusion and belonging to the device during the reporting time window.
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Administrators can create custom reports to supplement the standard reports provided with NetMRI. After you create them, custom reports are listed in the Reports –> Report Gallery tab, and can be run immediately or scheduled by any user using the same procedures as standard reports.
To create a custom report, do the following:
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