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 - Platform

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 - Platform is an advanced reporting platform that generates reports in a view that is simple to understand and configure. 

TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform 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 - Platform contains the following constituents:

• Reporting platform - TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform 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 - Platform uses one of the following repository databases:

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  • 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.