Configuring Inventory reporting
provides templates for Inventory report data collection. This section provides information about deploying Inventory templates for customers who want to use the enhanced Inventory reporting provided in TrueSight Smart Reporting for Server Automation.
Components and versions in the new deployment
In this scenario, components and versions in the new deployment are as follows:
Component | Version |
|---|---|
Application Server | <version> |
Managed servers (RSCD agents) | All the managed servers are on <version> |
Reports server | <version> |
Steps for configuring Inventory reporting
The following figure illustrates the steps for configuring Inventory reporting:
For configuring Inventory reporting in this scenario, you need to perform the following steps.
Verify prerequisites
Ensure that the Hardware Information configuration object exists on the Application Server.
Installing the inventory templates
Install the Inventory templates by running the Content Installer and following the instructions in Installing-Inventory-templates.
For a list of inventory templates, see TrueSight-Server-Automation-Data-Warehouse-inventory-templates.
Configuring Component Discovery Jobs
The Component Discovery Jobs creates components by associating the component template with the server.
Create and run Component Discovery Jobs for all managed servers, based on the operating system of the managed server. For associating templates with servers based on operating system, see TrueSight-Server-Automation-Data-Warehouse-inventory-templates. For more information about creating these jobs, see Creating Component Discovery Jobs in documentation.
After the Component Discovery Jobs are complete, verify the job results to ensure that all Discovery Job runs are successful. If any of these jobs fail, you must view the logs for the job, fix the issue causing the failure, and re-run the job. For more information about viewing logs, Managing job logs in the documentation.
Configuring and running Snapshot Jobs
Snapshot Jobs record the configuration of a group of server objects at a point in time. To view Inventory reports, you must run Snapshot Jobs at regular intervals.
To view Inventory reports, you must run Snapshot Jobs on components based on supplied Inventory templates. For associating components with Snapshot Jobs, see TrueSight-Server-Automation-Data-Warehouse-inventory-templates.
Create and run Snapshot Jobs for all managed servers, based on the operating system. For more information about creating these jobs, see Creating Snapshot Jobs in the documentation.
After the Snapshot Jobs are complete, verify the job results to ensure that all Snapshot Job runs are successful. If any of these jobs fail, you must view the logs for the job, fix the issue causing the failure, and re-run the job. For more information about viewing job logs, see Managing job logs in the documentation.
Running ETL
To see the data in the Inventory reports, you must run the extract, transfer, and load (ETL) process to transfer data from the database to the reports data warehouse.
Verifying Inventory reports
Run the Server Configuration report to ensure that the Inventory reports are working correctly. For information about how to run a report, see Running-out-of-the-box-reports.