7 Using the Reporting Framework
This chapter includes the following sections:
Introduction to the Reporting Framework
The powerful reporting framework of Enterprise Manager makes information about your managed environment available to audiences across your enterprise. Reports are used strategically to present a view of enterprise monitoring information for business intelligence purposes, and they can also serve an administrative role by showing activity, resource utilization, and configuration of managed targets. IT managers can use reports to show availability of sets of managed systems. Executives can view reports on availability of applications (such as corporate e-mail) over a period of time. Enterprise Manager ships with over 100 reports addressing these various needs; additionally you can create your own customized reports.
Information Publisher
You can develop new reports using Enterprise Manager Information Publisher (IP) reporting framework based on your product requirements.
Enterprise Manager Information Publisher reports have the following advantages:
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Reports that looks like Enterprise Manager console pages (no tight control over layout).
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Tightly coupled with Enterprise Manager Oracle Management Services (OMS) and repository.
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Integrated Dashboards.
Developing Enterprise Manager Information Publisher Reports
Enterprise Manager Information Publisher reports are defined in XML and packaged with the plug-in. These report definitions specify the layout and content of the report. You can use Enterprise Manager Information Publisher PL/SQL APIs to develop new report definitions.