Working with reports
You can use TrueSight Smart Reporting for Server Automation to generate reports with a simple drag-and-drop action. Smart Reporting uses TrueSight Smart Reporting for Server Automation as its platform to administer, compile, and publish reports, and uses Oracle or SQL Server as the application database. The Report Engine is a Java application that collects data from TrueSight Server Automation server, and compiles the data.
TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform integrates TrueSight Smart Reporting for Server Automation with Yellowfin, a third-party business intelligence and reporting tool. For information about Yellowfin, see the Yellowfin documentation.
Report types
TrueSight Smart Reporting for Server Automation provides the following types of reports:
- Built-in reports: These reports are delivered with TrueSight Smart Reporting for Server Automation.
- Custom reports: These reports are model-based reports in which the data, presentation type (chart or table), filter criteria, data items to display, and data grouping and sorting are all customizable. For information about creating ad hoc reports, see Creating custom reports.
Overview of the domains available in the reports
The following table provides an overview of the domain folders contained in the TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform page.
Data domains
Domain folder | Description |
|---|---|
Command Usage | Contains data associated with the servers being used at a data center, such as information about the users accessing those servers. Command Usage reports allow you to monitor the execution of various commands on servers and when those commands have been executed. |
Compliance | Contains data associated with the Compliance Jobs in TrueSight Server Automation and a set of statistical metrics based on the results of running these jobs. Compliance reports provide detailed information about the results of Compliance Jobs for servers in your data center. |
Inventory | Contains data associated with TrueSight Server Automation Snapshot Jobs. These jobs gather inventory information about a collection of server configuration objects that are defined in the templates associated with the jobs. Note: BMC recommends that you do not modify these templates. If you want to add additional assets or attributes, make a copy of the templates and modify the copy to include additional assets or attributes as required. |
Job Activity | Contains a set of statistical metrics based on the results of running TrueSight Server Automation jobs. Job Activity reports provide data and statistical measurements related to all jobs that run in TrueSight Server Automation. |
Patching | Contains data associated with the TrueSight Server Automation Patch Analysis Jobs and a set of statistical metrics based on the results collected by these jobs. |
Reporting in multi-site deployments
TrueSight Smart Reporting for Server Automation can aggregate data across multiple TrueSight Server Automation sites. In the case of multiple sites, report authors might need to report on a subset of sites or allow report viewers to filter report results by site.
The BladeLogic data model includes a site data column for several data groups, such as job, template, and server. This column enables you to create reports in which you can view site information and filter data by sites.
In a multi-site installation, sites (with locally managed servers) provide data to a central reports data warehouse for consolidated, enterprise-wide reporting. Data from the TrueSight Server Automation databases is used to populate the central reports data warehouse.
Users with the GlobalReportAdmins role can view data from all sites in a multi-site installation. Other users can view data from the site to which their role has access.