A wide range of reports can be generated by specifying different numbers of agents, numbers of data properties, and report durations such as 4 hours to 1 month.
Typical reports take a few seconds to several minutes to generate. The actual time required is affected by the following factors:
The number of actual data points included in the report
Reports are limited to a maximum of 10,000 data points per report.
Amount of performance reporting manager data in the database
Server performance and activity
Concurrent generation of other performance reporting manager reports
For example, on a medium Sun Management Center server configured with the performance reporting manager add-on, a relatively simple report that includes 5 properties for 1 agent over the last 24 hours can be generated in about 20 seconds. Conversely, a more substantial report that includes 5 properties for 5 agents over the last 7 days can take around 10 minutes to generate.
A medium Sun Management Center server with the performance reporting manager add-on is assumed to be a SunFire-280R with two 450 MHz UltraSPARC II CPUs, 1 GB RAM, and 1 GB swap. It is also assumed that the SunFire-280R is monitoring 300 agents and collecting 300 data properties per agent for the performance reporting manager.