Getting Started

TrueSight Smart Reporting for Server Automation is a web-based reporting application that provides reporting capabilities for your systems that are managed by TrueSight Server Automation. The following products are included in TrueSight Smart Reporting for Server Automation:

  • TrueSight Server Automation - Data Warehouse
  • TrueSight Smart Reporting

TrueSight Server Automation - Data Warehouse

TrueSight Server Automation - Data Warehouse uses rich data warehouse schema and dimensional modeling principles to access the historical data captured by TrueSight Server Automation.

TrueSight Smart Reporting

TrueSight Smart Reporting is an advanced reporting platform that generates reports in a view that is simple to understand and configure. 

TrueSight Smart Reporting reports are generated on the data collected by TrueSight Server Automation. In addition to the out-of-the-box reports, you can also create your own custom reports. TrueSight Smart Reporting contains the following constituents:

  • Reporting platform - TrueSight Smart Reporting uses Yellowfin as the reporting tool. With TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform, you can generate and render reports with a simple drag-and-drop action. 
  • Repository database - The repository database acts as the central repository for all the reporting metadata that can be used by the registered components. TrueSight Smart Reporting uses one of the following repository databases:

    • PostgreSQL
    • Oracle
    • SQL Server

Suggested reading

  • If you are an existingBMC Decision Support for Server Automation user and want to understand how to move to TrueSight Smart Reporting for Server Automation, see Migrating from BMC Decision Support for Server Automation.
  • To know about a typical deployment of TrueSight Smart Reporting for Server Automation, see Architecture.
  • To learn about the user roles and the tasks that they can perform, see User roles.

 

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