The Storage Information Report displays detailed information about the media
that is associated with each storage library, the media locations, and which
media has been written to or reserved by storage policy copies.
You can use the Storage Information Report to review information related to
available media in the CommCell. This report can help you to determine how many
tapes you will need for future use, based on how many tapes you are currently
using. This report is useful if you need to
know:
You can further customize the report by using the tabs that are available in
the Report Selection dialog box. The following table describes the available report options
for this report.
Options |
Description |
General |
You can set the report to include media in a variety of statuses, extra
details such as job ID, media with special settings, and retention
policy settings. You can set any of the following options:
- Group report information by barcode, container, last write time,
library, location, or storage policy
- You must select at least one media status
- Include job ID, aged data, error and usage, and de-configured
clients
- Display media with errors and prevent export only settings and
media retained by extended retention only or basic retention only
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Libraries |
You can set the report to display media that is either in or out of the
libraries that you select.
You can set the report to display information for all Libraries in the
CommCell, or select individual Libraries.
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Media Repository |
You can set the report to display information for all media repositories
in the CommCell or select individual media repositories. |
Location |
You can set the report to display information for all locations in the
CommCell or select individual locations. |
Storage Policies |
You can set the report to display information for all storage policies in the
CommCell or select individual storage policies.
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Time Range |
You can set the report to include information based on a time range
including the last write time, the last write and read time, the last
export time, and the last data creation time. You must select one of
these options to make the view options available.
You can choose to include information from a specific time range in the
report.
- Choose a number of hours, days, or weeks from the list. The report
information ends at the time that you generate the report.
- Select a time zone, and then enter a range of time from a specific date
and time to another specific date and time.
- Set the report to start at the first event that occurred in the
CommCell, or enter a specific date and time in the Select Start Time
section.
- Set the report to end at the last event that occurs in the CommCell
before you run the report, or enter a specific date and time in the Select
End Time section.
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Output |
You can set the report output to appear in one of several formats and save it to a variety of locations.
Set any of the following options:
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Generate the report in HTML, Text separated by commas or tabs,
or PDF.
For the Text output, reports that consist of multiple tables contain
each table in a separate text file. Therefore, the text output for one
report might consist of multiple text files.
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The following table describes additional operations that you can perform with
the reports feature:
Option |
Description |
Related topics |
Saving the Report Output |
You can save the report output to a specified location.
- On the CommCell Console toolbar, click the Reports button.
The Report Selection dialog box appears.
- From the Reports pane, select the report that you want to generate.
- From the Output Format section, select a file format.
- Select Output To, and then enter the location to which you want to save the report.
- To save the report to your local computer, select Use Local Drive On, and then in the Report Copy Location box, enter a location.
- To save the report to a shared network drive, select Use Network Share, and then in the Report Copy Location box, enter a location.
- To upload the report to an FTP site, select FTP Upload, and then click Settings to enter the FTP location and your credentials.
- From the Choose Locale list, select the language in which you want the report to appear.
- At the bottom of the Report Selection dialog box, click Run.
The report opens in the file format that you specified and a copy of the report is saved to the location that you entered.
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Saving a Report as a Template |
You can save the report settings as a template in the CommCell Console, and
then run the report at any time.
- On the CommCell Console toolbar, click the Reports button.
The Report Selection dialog box appears.
- From the Reports pane, select the report that you want to save.
- At the bottom of the Report Selection dialog box, click Save As.
The Save As dialog box appears.
- Select Save a Report, and then enter a name for the report template in the box.
- Click OK.
The report template appears under Reports > My Reports on the General tab.
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Generating a Report from a Template |
You can generate a report from a template at any time.
- From the CommCell Browser, expand Reports > My Reports, and then click
General.
The General tab appears in the CommCell Console.
- In the General tab, right-click the name of the report that you want to
generate, and then select Run Immediately.
The report opens in the format that is specified in the template.
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Modifying a Report Template |
- From the CommCell Browser, expand Reports > My Reports, and then click
General.
The General tab appears in the CommCell Console.
- In the General tab, right-click the name of the report that you want to
change, and then select
Edit.
The Saved Reports dialog box appears.
- Select the Report Details tab, and then make changes on any of
the available tabs.
- Click OK to save your settings.
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Cloning a Report Template |
- From the CommCell Browser, expand Reports > My Reports, and then click
General.
The General tab appears in the CommCell Console.
- In the General tab, right-click the name of the report that you want to clone,
and then select Edit.
The Saved Reports dialog box appears.
- Select the Job Initiation tab, and then select Saved Report.
- Select Clone this report as, and then enter a name in the box.
- Click OK.
The cloned report appears in the General tab.
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Deleting a Report Template |
- From the CommCell Browser, expand Reports > My Reports, and then click
General.
The General tab appears in the CommCell Console.
- In the General tab, right-click the name of the report that you want to
delete, and then select Delete.
A message appears that asks if you are sure that you want to delete the
selected Report Template.
- Click Yes.
The report is removed from the General tab.
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Setting a Report Alert |
This option allows users or user groups to get an automatic notification when a report
is created. If the report output consists of multiple text files, they are
compressed into a CAB file and sent as an attachment. Text output that consists
of a single file is sent according to your settings. Follow the steps given below to set up the
criteria to raise notifications/alerts:
- From the CommCell Console toolbar, click the Reports button.
The Report Selection dialog box appears.
- From the Reports pane, select a report, and then click Schedule.
The Schedule Details dialog box appears.
- Select the Notification tab, and then click Add Alert.
- From the Add Alert Wizard dialog box, select the types of
notifications that you want to send,
and then click Next.
- Add recipients to the selected list.
- To add a recipient that is a user in the CommCell, from the Available list, select a
user, and then click Add.
- To add a recipient that is not a user in the CommCell, in the Email
to Recipients box, enter an e-mail address.
- Click Next, and then click Finish.
- Click OK to save your settings.
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Refer to Alerts. |
Saving a Report as a Script |
The Command Line Interface allows you to generate reports from the command
line. The commands can be executed from the command line or can be integrated
into scripts. You can generate command line scripts for specific operations in
the CommCell Console by using the Save As Script option.
To create an XML script that generates a report:
- From the CommCell Browser, expand Reports > My Reports, and then click
General.
The General tab appears in the CommCell Console.
- In the General tab, right-click the name of the report that you want to
save as a script,
and then select Edit.
The Saved Reports dialog box appears.
- Select the Job Initiation tab, and then click Save As Script
The Save As Script dialog box appears.
- Enter the appropriate settings to generate a script file.
- From the Client list, select the name of the client where
you want to save the script.
- In the Path box, enter the file path where you want to save the
script, and then enter a name for the script file at the end of the path.
Ensure that the name of the file contains the .xml extension
- Click OK to create the script.
A message appears that says that the script saved successfully
- Click OK.
The Save As Script and
the Saved Reports dialog boxes close.
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Refer to Command Line Interface. |