Standard Reports Overview

Performance Reporting Manager includes 12 standard reports with predefined options that you cannot edit. A standard report has predefined report options that generate a report that is generally useful to anyone monitoring a system. The report output format is also predefined and cannot be changed.

Standard reports are organized by category and subcategory in the left pane of the Report Manager GUI. Standard report requests are identified by the lock symbol that appears on the report request icon. The lock reminds you that you cannot change the predefined report options.

All standard reports generated by Performance Reporting Manager are classified as being either a performance report or a system configuration report. A performance report tracks properties that are numerical and change over time. An example of a performance report is a graph that shows the percentage of CPU kernel usage on a host over the last 24 hours. For more information about standard performance reports, see Standard Performance Reports.

A standard system configuration report provides data detailing the state of the configuration on that machine. An example of a system configuration report is a table that summarizes all the patches currently installed on one or more machines. For more information about standard system configuration reports, see Standard System Configuration Reports.

The output from all standard reports can be viewed in the Sun Management Center 3.5 console, in a web browser as an HTML file, or in a comma-separated value (CSV) or tab-separated ASCII text file. The text file can be used with other tools to analyze the data. See Options for Viewing Report Output for more information.

For a detailed list of properties that each standard report incorporates, see Standard Performance Reports, Standard System Configuration Reports, or Appendix A, Reference Information.

You must have the Kernel Reader Simple module loaded before you can run any standard report.

Standard Performance Reports

Performance data logging on agent machines is provided by the history logging capability included with Sun Management Center 3.5. Performance Reporting Manager only collects the data logged in the history log files. The data then is transferred to the Sun Management Center 3.5 server machine and loaded into the database. Report data is obtained by making queries to the database to determine trends in the performance statistics over a specified time period.

The report options are predefined in the report request. The report output format for all standard performance reports is a graph. The following three standard performance reports are included with Performance Reporting Manager. They are organized by their category and subcategory names.

• Performance

  • CPU

    • CPU Utilization — This report lists the CPU utilization for the last 24 hours using the Maximum function. The report data includes the % CPU kernel time, and % CPU user time. The host name and port are entered when the report is run.

  • Swap

    • Swap Available — This report lists the swap space available on each host over time. The report data includes the available memory in Kbytes (anon memory not reserved). You provide the host name and port when the report is run.

  • Memory

    • Memory Free — This report lists the amount of physical memory free in megabytes on each host over time. The report data includes the amount of physical memory free in Mbytes. You provide the host name and port when the report is run.

Standard System Configuration Reports

System configuration data is logged on the agent machines by the Performance Reporting Manager logging component. This logging component is added to the agent machine during installation. The data is then transferred to the Sun Management Center 3.5 server machine and loaded into the database. Report data is obtained by making queries to the database located on the Sun Management Center 3.5 server machine. This method is similar to the way the data for standard performance reports is obtained.

The report options are predefined in the report request. The report output format for all standard system configuration reports is a table. The following nine standard system configuration reports are included with Performance Reporting Manager. They are organized by their category and subcategory names.

• Alarm

  • Alarms

    • Alarm Details – This report lists all open alarms for each host. The report data includes host name, operating system, alarm severity, alarm status, open date, and alarm message. You provide the host name and port when the report is run.

    • Alarm Summary – This report lists the alarm status and alarm count for each host. The report data includes the host name and alarm status. The report provides detail for all hosts in the server context.

    • Alarm Severity Count By Host – This report lists the alarm severity count for each host. The report data includes the host name, alarm severity, and alarm status. The report provides detail for all hosts in the server context.

• Hardware

  • System

    • System Details – This report lists the system details by host name. All hosts in the server context that have both the Config-Reader add-on and Performance Reporting Manager installed are included. The report data includes the host name, operating system, system clock frequency, platform type, total disks, total memory, total processors, and total tape devices.

    • Platform Summary – This report lists the platform type by host name. All hosts in the server context that have the Config-Reader add-on and Performance Reporting Manager installed are included. The report data includes platform.

    • OS Summary – This report lists the operating system by host name. All hosts in the server context that have the Config-Reader add-on and Performance Reporting Manager installed are included. The report data includes the operating system.

  • Configuration

• Software

  • Packages

    • Hosts with SUNWcsr package – This report lists the hosts that have the SUNWcsr package installed. The report data includes the host name, package instance, package name, category, version, package description, and install date. The report provides detail for all hosts in the server context.

    • Package Details – This report lists all the software packages installed on a specified host. The report data includes the host name, package instance, package name, category, version, package description, and install date. The host name and port is entered when the report is run.

  • Patches

    • Patch Details – This report lists all the software patches installed on a specified host. The report data includes host name, operating system, patch id, packages, obsoletes, requires, and incompatibles. The host name and port is entered when the report is run.

You can resize the columns in any tabular report by dragging the sides of the column header. Additionally, you can sort any tabular report by double-clicking the column headers. The report then sorts according to the header selected.