Reports provide time-sliced views of the system's status and workload. Report parameters define the scope of the report and export formats for the report, including the following: PDF, Excel, CSV, Word, RTF, Flash, ODT and ODS.
10.4.1. Report Parameters
The user defines parameters at run time to create reports. Report parameters define the scope and time scale of the report. When running a report, a prompt asks the user to provide parameters, if available.
Click the name of any report. The Report Parameter Selection Dialog
appears:
Example 10.1. Report Parameter Selection
The Report Parameter Selection Dialog
consists of a number of drop-down menus that define the report's parameters:
Objects deleted (removed) from the system are still recorded in the reporting history database. Select deleted objects, such as clusters, data centers and hosts, as values for report parameters if required. The bottom of the parameter options list shows deleted objects, which are suffixed with the date of removal from the system.