Reporting basics

BMC Discovery includes a number of predefined reports. Reports operate in the same way as searches: when a report is selected, a query is run to find matching objects. The results are displayed in the form of a list page, from which details of individual objects can be selected.

All of these reports can be added to a dashboard. See Using and customizing dashboards for more information. Reports can also be located using the search in the UI. Keywords entered there are matched against the titles and descriptions of the reports.

The following section lists the reports that are available in BMC Discovery:

Discovery Operation reports

Report Name	Description
Current Endpoint Access Analysis	Allows the analysis of the latest endpoint access to assist discovery troubleshooting.
Failing Host Endpoints	Shows the endpoints that have previously been used to successfully scan Hosts, but where the most recent scan failed.
Summary of Last Host Access	Shows a summary of the access method used on the last access to each Host.
Devices near Removal Threshold	Show a list of scanned devices that have not been confirmed, and so are near their removal thresholds. Gives an approximate indication of the removal deadline.
Devices with Endpoint Identity Change	Shows a list of IP addresses for which the most recently discovered device is different to the device previously discovered via that address. That may be because the previous device has a new IP address, because it has been decommissioned, or because it has changed so much that it appears to be a different device.
Seen but unscanned IPs	This report displays details of Hosts that were seen but not scanned. That is, a Host that was not discovered, for example because it was behind a firewall or on a subnet that was not scanned. However, its existence can be inferred by network connections to its IP address from known hosts.
Seen but unscanned IPs with Ports	This report displays details of Hosts that were seen but not scanned. That is, a Host that was not discovered, for example because it was behind a firewall or on a subnet that was not scanned. However, its existence can be inferred by network connections to its IP address from known hosts. This report includes which port the connection was to.
Seen but unscanned IPs Detail Report	This report displays details of Hosts that were seen but not scanned. That is, a Host that was not discovered, for example because it was behind a firewall or on a subnet that was not scanned.However, its existence can be inferred by network connections to its IP address from known hosts.

BMC Discovery Deployment

Report Name	Description
Hosts and other devices that failed last CMDB sync	Shows Hosts, Network Devices and other root device types that were not successfully synchronized with the CMDB on the most recent attempt.
Aged-out Hosts and other devices that failed last CMDB sync	Shows Hosts, Network Devices and other root device types that are marked destroyed, but were not successfully synchronized with the CMDB on the most recent attempt. These devices should be synchronized manually, to ensure they are not present in the CMDB.
Imported root node key information which has not been used	Shows key information for root nodes which has not yet been used during discovery to create new root nodes.

Discovery Diagnostics

Report Name	Description
Host Endpoints with Session Issues	List of Endpoints related to existing Host nodes that caused a Host node update on their last access, but also had Session Issues.
Host Endpoints With Possible Process to Port Issues	List of Host Endpoints for which we cannot determine Process to Port mappings.
Possible Host Endpoints	List of Endpoints not related to Hosts but believed to be Host devices on their last access. To discover these hosts, provide credentials or otherwise diagnose access issues.
Possible Non-Host Endpoints	List of Endpoints not related to current devices but believed to be non-Host devices such as printers, routers etc on their last access. To discover these devices, provide credentials or otherwise diagnose access issues.
Hosts with Discovery Conditions	Shows a list of Hosts with Discovery Conditions logged, including the time each condition was first encountered.

Application Change Impact

Report Name	Description
Application that could be impacted by a Host	Shows Application that could be impacted by changes to Hosts.
Application that could be impacted by an Edge Switch	Shows Application that could be impacted by changes to an edge switch.
Application that could be impacted by a Software Product	Shows Application that could be impacted by changes to a Software Instance type.

Infrastructure

Report Name	Description
Host Distribution by Vendor	Shows a distribution of the Hosts per Vendor. Note that unknown Vendors are excluded, for this detail use Host Distribution By Vendor and Model.
Host Distribution by Vendor and Model	Shows a distribution of the Hosts per Vendor. Note that unknown Vendors are excluded, for this detail use Host Distribution By Vendor and Model.
Host Vendor Distribution	Shows a chart of the Hosts per Vendor.
All Blade Enclosures	Shows all Blade Enclosures.
Blade Enclosure Discovery Summary	Shows a summary of the discovery of each Blade Enclosure. Note that some vendors, such as Dell, do not report information on I/O Modules so the expected value can be zero.
Undiscovered Hosts for Processor Blades	Shows Processor Blades without a related Host.
Undiscovered Network Devices for I/O Modules	Shows I/O Modules without a related Network Device. Note: some vendors, such as Dell, don't report I/O module information.
Hosts with Management Controllers	Shows all Hosts managed by a Management Controller.
Management Controllers without Hosts	Shows all Management Controllers which are not connected to a Host.

Infrastructure in Context

Report Name	Description
Hosts with Organizational Details	Show a list of Hosts, with details of linked owners, locations and organizational unit.
Hosts with NIS/Window Domain Details	Show a list of Host nodes and their discovered domains.

Virtualization and Partitioning

Report Name	Description
All Virtual and Partition Hosts	Shows a report of Hosts that are Virtual(e.g. VMware, Solaris Zones), or a member of a Host Container(e.g. Sun Enterprise 15K Series).
Containing Hosts with Virtual Machines	Shows a report of Hosts that are running VMs and how many have been linked to virtual Hosts.
Virtual Machines not linked to Containing Hosts	Shows a report of Hosts that appear to be running in Virtual Machines but have not been linked to containing Hosts.
VM Technology Classification	Shows a count of virtual Hosts for each Virtualization technology.

Cluster Reports

Report Name	Description
All Clustered Hosts	Shows Hosts that are in Clusters.
Unscanned Cluster Members	Show cluster members that have not been scanned.
Clustered Software	Show software running on a cluster.

Operating Systems

Report Name	Description
Hosts with OS Classification Details	Shows all Hosts with OS Classification, useful for filtering and charting.
Host OS Classification	Shows a count of Hosts for each OS Classification.
Host OS Type Distribution	Shows a count of Hosts for each OS Type.
Unix Type Distribution	Shows a distribution of UNIX type operating systems(includes GNU/Linux and FreeBSD).
Unix Version Distribution	Shows a distribution of UNIX type operating systems(includes GNU/Linux and FreeBSD) and Version.
Windows Version Distribution	Shows a distribution of Windows versions.
Windows Version and Edition Distribution	Shows a distribution of the Version and Edition for Windows.

New Entities

Report Name	Description
Newly Discovered Hosts	Report to show new Hosts found in the given period.
Newly Discovered Software	Report to show new Software Instances found in the given period.
Newly Discovered Packages	Report to show new Packages found in the environment in the given period. This is an intensive report and may take some time to run.
New Packages discovered on Hosts	Report to show new links between Hosts and Packages in the given period. This is an intensive report and may take some time to run.
Newly Discovered Patches	Report to show new Patches found in the environment in the given period. This is an intensive report and may take some time to run.
New Patches discovered on Hosts	Report to show new links between Hosts and Patches in the given period. This is an intensive report and may take some time to run.

Load Balancer Reports

Report Name	Description
All Load Balancer Devices	Shows all Network Devices with load balancer capability.
Load Balancers in failover pairs or clusters	Shows Load Balancers in failover pairs or clusters.
Load Balancer Members not linked to a Host	Shows Load Balancer Members not linked to a Host.
Load Balancer Members not linked to software	Shows Load Balancer Members not linked to a Software Component or Software Instance.
Load Balancer Services missing links to software	Shows Load Balancer Services that use members which are not linked to a Software Component or Software Instance.

File System Reports

Report Name	Description
Full File Systems	Shows Hosts with very full File Systems.
Free Space	Shows Hosts with File Systems which have a lot of free space.

Host Storage

Report Name	Description
Fibre Channel HBA Details	Shows a list of Fibre Channel Host Based Adapters (HBA) and which Host they are installed in. The list includes the HBA identifier, WWNN and WWPN.
Host Storage	Show Host Storage.
SAN Storage Volumes used by Hosts	Show SAN Storage Volumes in use by Hosts.
Physical Disks used by Hosts	Show Physical Disks in use by Hosts.
Host Virtual Disks & Physical Storage	Show Host Virtual Disks and the backing Physical Storage.

Software

Report Name	Description
Software Distribution by Category	Shows a distribution of the Software by Category.
Software Detail by Category	Shows a detail list of the Software by Category. Software that is in more than Category will be displayed more than once.
Software Inventory - Summary	Shows a summary of the distribution of versions of a piece of software.
Software Inventory - Detail	Shows details of where software is running, with version information.
Software Inventory - Version Discovery Failures	Shows Software Instances where discovery of version information failed. Does not include cases where no attempt was made to discover the version.
Summary of Hosts with a port open	Shows a summary report of which Hosts have been seen with common service ports open. The report can be restricted to just the latest scan data for each Host, or all available scan data.
Detail of Hosts with a port open	Shows a detail report of which Hosts have been seen with common service ports open. The report runs over all available scan data and shows the port details, the number of connections seen, the time it was seen and basic host details.
Runtime Environment Inventory - Summary	Shows a summary of the distribution of versions of a runtime environment.
Runtime Environment Inventory - Detail	Shows details of where runtime environments are running, with version information.
Runtime Environment Inventory - Version Discovery Failures	Shows Runtime Environments where discovery of version information failed. Does not include cases where no attempt was made to discover the version.
Installed Packages	Report to show Hosts linked to Packages.
Installed Patches	Report to show Hosts linked to Patches.

NAS Storage

Report Name	Description
All NAS Storage Systems	Shows All NAS Storage Systems
Hosts connected to NAS Storage Systems	Shows all Hosts mounting filesystems from NAS Storage Systems.
Applications running on Hosts connected to NAS Storage	Show Applications running on Hosts that are connected to a NAS Storage System.
NAS Storage Systems by Vendor	Shows a count of NAS StorageSystems for each Vendor.

SAN Storage

Report Name	Description
All SAN Storage Systems	Shows all SAN Storage Systems.
All Storage Volumes	Shows All Storage Volumes.
Storage Management Software	Shows Storage Management Software details.
Connections Not Matched With A Host	Show StorageConnections that are not linked to a Host. This may be because the Host has not been discovered yet or no longer exists.
SAN Storage Volumes used by Hosts	Show SAN Storage Volumes in use by Hosts.
Hosts with HBA Cards Not Connected to Storage	Show Hosts that have HBA cards that are not mapped to any storage. This may be because they are connected to Storage Systems that have not been discovered, or because the HBA cards are no longer used.
Hosts Connected to Storage (SAN)	Show Hosts that are connected to a SAN Storage System.
Applications running on Hosts connected to SAN Storage	Show Applications running on Hosts that are connected to a SAN Storage System.
Storage Pools with an oversubscription warning	Shows Storage Pool where the Oversubscription warning has been set.
SAN Storage Systems by Vendor	Shows a count of SAN StorageSystems for each Vendor.

Change control

Change control reports are no longer displayed by default. To use them, you can add a Change Control dashboard channel. See Using and customizing dashboards for information on how to do this.

Report Name	Description
Host Hardware Configuration changes	Shows detected Host Hardware Configuration changes over a user selectable period of time. Attributes considered are those in the Hardware and Network section of a Host. By default the time is the last day.
Host OS Configuration changes	Shows detected Host OS Configuration changes over a user selectable period of time. Attributes considered are those in the Operating System section of a Host. By default the time is the last day.