Storage Information Report

• Total amount of media
• Amount of active media
• Amount of full media
• Amount of spare media
• Amount of other types of media including media that is being cleaned and media that is retired, foreign, or saved

• Bar code identifier for each piece of media
• The library and MediaAgents associated with each piece of media
• The storage policy that is associated with each piece of media
• The location of the media
• Retention rules associated with the media
• Schedule times including exportable time and last export time
• Other media information including status, time of last read and last write and total size of data

• 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

You can set the report to display information for all Libraries in the CommCell, or select individual Libraries.

You can set the report to display information for all storage policies in the CommCell or select individual storage policies.

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.

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:

• 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.

• Enter a location to save the report in one of these locations:

  • On your local computer
  • On a shared network drive
  • An FTP location to which you can upload.

    When the text output consists of multiple 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.

• Choose a language from the Choose Locale list to set the report to appear in that language.

You can save the report output to a specified location.

1. On the CommCell Console toolbar, click the Reports button.

   The Report Selection dialog box appears.

2. From the Reports pane, select the report that you want to generate.
3. From the Output Format section, select a file format.
   • HTML
   • Text
   • PDF
4. 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.
5. From the Choose Locale list, select the language in which you want the report to appear.
6. 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.

You can save the report settings as a template in the CommCell Console, and then run the report at any time.

1. On the CommCell Console toolbar, click the Reports button.

   The Report Selection dialog box appears.

2. From the Reports pane, select the report that you want to save.
3. At the bottom of the Report Selection dialog box, click Save As.

   The Save As dialog box appears.

4. Select Save a Report, and then enter a name for the report template in the box.
5. Click OK.

   The report template appears under Reports > My Reports on the General tab.

You can generate a report from a template at any time.

1. From the CommCell Browser, expand Reports > My Reports, and then click General.

   The General tab appears in the CommCell Console.

2. 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.

1. From the CommCell Browser, expand Reports > My Reports, and then click General.

   The General tab appears in the CommCell Console.

2. 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.

3. Select the Report Details tab, and then make changes on any of the available tabs.
4. Click OK to save your settings.

1. From the CommCell Browser, expand Reports > My Reports, and then click General.

   The General tab appears in the CommCell Console.

2. 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.

3. Select the Job Initiation tab, and then select Saved Report.
4. Select Clone this report as, and then enter a name in the box.
5. Click OK.

   The cloned report appears in the General tab.

1. From the CommCell Browser, expand Reports > My Reports, and then click General.

   The General tab appears in the CommCell Console.

2. 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.

3. Click Yes.

   The report is removed from the General tab.

Follow the steps given below to set up the criteria to raise notifications/alerts:

1. From the CommCell Console toolbar, click the Reports button.

   The Report Selection dialog box appears.

2. From the Reports pane, select a report, and then click Schedule.

   The Schedule Details dialog box appears.

3. Select the Notification tab, and then click Add Alert.
4. From the Add Alert Wizard dialog box, select the types of notifications that you want to send, and then click Next.
5. 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.
6. Click Next, and then click Finish.
7. Click OK to save your settings.

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:

1. From the CommCell Browser, expand Reports > My Reports, and then click General.

   The General tab appears in the CommCell Console.

2. 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.

3. Select the Job Initiation tab, and then click Save As Script

   The Save As Script dialog box appears.

4. Enter the appropriate settings to generate a script file.
   1. From the Client list, select the name of the client where you want to save the script.
   2. 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

   3. Click OK to create the script.

      A message appears that says that the script saved successfully

   4. Click OK.

   The Save As Script and the Saved Reports dialog boxes close.