View->Reports
Report Viewer functionality
- provides essential operations to present the report templates,
- generates reports selected by the user,
- analyzes the configured reports in a monitoring policy based on data collected by NetCrunch,
- reports can be generated and viewed in the specified scope and time range.
Report list
A list of possible reports divided by their purpose is displayed in the Reports Tree window located on the left. If the Show all possible reports link located at the bottom is selected, the program displays all reports possible to generate regardless of using them in data collection policies.
When you click the Hide unused reports in data collection policies link the program displays only reports used (added to data collection for reporting and enabled) in monitoring packs. If a single node is selected in the Subject field, a list of reports used in all monitoring policies to which the node belongs will be displayed.
Report details
In the middle of the Report Viewer window, the report details section contains the report name at the top, information about the selected report, allow enabling data collection, see report demo and generate the report. Once, the report has been generated, it is displayed in the report details section.
Pregenerated reports
The Pregenerated Reports tab contains the list of reports generated by NetCrunch and/or by the user. The selected report can be displayed by double-clicking. You can also delete the selected report by using the appropriate command from the context menu.
The Bookmarks section is displayed when the desired report is selected. The contents of the selected report allow navigating through the selected report. It is a very useful tool, especially when the selected report contains many pages.
Map reports
Any time you need to create reports for a specific node group, you may create a custom map in NetCrunch containing desired nodes and create map reports.
Enabling data collection
You can enable data collection for the selected report from within the Report Viewer by using the Enable Data Collection link.
In this case, the enabled report is added to the monitoring pack of the selected node, map or pack view. If the Report Viewer is opened for an existing map without a previously defined monitoring pack, then enabling the selected report will create the monitoring pack along with the selected report. The newly created monitoring pack with defined data collection is displayed in the NetCrunch Monitoring Packs window.
Note
The program collects data only when it is possible. For example, if a user enables a particular report for a Windows node (events for this node will start to be generated and trends will be collected) when in fact the computer is running some version of a Linux operating system, then it will be virtually impossible to properly collect data.
