17 Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved. Information Publisher

Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved Objectives After completing this lesson, you should be able to: View and customize out-of-box reports Create custom reports Create custom reports by using the management repository and its base views to generate a report Schedule reports Share reports with the entire business community

Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved Overview Information Publisher provides: Out-of-box reports A framework for creating HTML reports based on the Management Repository data The ability to: –Schedule the generation of reports –Store the scheduled copies for future reference – the reports to intended audiences –Share the reports with the entire business community

Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved Report Definitions A report definition indicates to the reporting framework as to how to generate a report by defining: Report content User access Scheduling information

Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved Out-of-Box Reports A library of predefined report definitions is provided with the Information Publisher framework. These report definitions: Are available to all Enterprise Manager administrators Cannot be deleted Can be used to make a customized report to fit specific operational needs

Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved Out-of-Box Report Categories Deployment and Configuration Enterprise Manager Setup Monitoring Security Storage

Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved Running an Out-of-Box Report

Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved Anatomy of a Report Elements Time period Target

Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved Creating Custom Reports To create a custom report, perform the following steps: 1.Choose whether to start from scratch or modify an existing report. 2.Specify name, category, and subcategory.

Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved Creating Custom Reports 3.Specify target parameters.

Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved Creating Custom Reports 4.Specify the time period. 5.Choose the visual style.

Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved Creating Custom Reports 6.Add report elements. 7.Customize the report layout.

Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved Report Targets You must have at least view privileges on a target to run a report on that target or the report must have been set to use the privileges of the report owner. You can limit a report to be for a certain target or type of target on the General page. Only one target can be entered as a target parameter (this could be a Group target if desired). The report target can be included or defined in the individual report element parameters when supported by that element.

Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved Report Elements Report elements are the building blocks of a report definition. There are four types of report elements: Generic Monitoring Service level reporting Enterprise Manager setup

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Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved Report Elements: Generic Generic report elements include the following: Table from SQL Chart from SQL Image display Styled text Separator

Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved Drilling Down to SQL on Existing Report Definitions

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Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved Chart from SQL Information Publisher is able to display the following types of charts from SQL code: Pie chart Bar chart Line chart Time-series line chart Time-series bar chart

Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved Chart from SQL: Pie Chart

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Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved Chart from SQL: Bar and Line Charts Value Column Value Column Key Column

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Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved Chart from SQL: Time-Series Line Chart Value Column Date Column

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Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved Report Elements: Monitoring Monitoring report elements include: Open Alerts Metric Details Availability Timeline (Group) System Monitoring Dashboard Application-specific monitoring elements (Web applications, HTTP server, services, and application servers)

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Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved Open Alerts

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Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved Report Elements: Service Level Service-level report elements include: Service Level Details Service Level Violation Service Level Summary Services Monitoring Dashboard Services’ Status Summary

Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved Service Level Reporting: Examples Service Level Details:

Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved Service Level Reporting: Examples Service Level Violations: Service Level Summary:

Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved Service Level Reporting: Examples Services Monitoring Dashboard: Services’ Status Summary:

Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved Customizing the Report Layout

Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved Scheduling Reports A report can be scheduled to run: One time (immediately) One time (later) –Start date –Start time On a repeating schedule –Frequency –Start date and time –End date and time (could be indefinite)

Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved Saving and ing Copies of Reports Copies of reports can be: Saved for future reference ed to the appropriate recipients Saved Copies 3

Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved Access Model The owner of the report (and all super administrators) can: “Create Like” or edit the report definition Share the report definition Share with public users, only if the report owner has the “Grant Any Report Viewer” privilege

Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved Enterprise Manager Reports Web Site The Enterprise Manager Reports Web site: Enables viewing by people who are not Enterprise Manager administrators Displays reports that have been designated for public viewing (these reports have the “Allow viewing without logging in to Enterprise Manager” option set) Is accessed via

Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved Repository Views Repository views are grouped as follows: Monitoring Jobs Inventory Policies and Policy Violations Templates Oracle Home Patching Linux Patching Web Applications Database Security Database Configuration

Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved Summary In this lesson, you should have learned how to: View and customize out-of-box reports Create custom reports Create custom reports by using the management repository and its base views to generate a report Schedule reports Share reports with the entire business community

Copyright © 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved Practice 17 Overview: Information Publisher This practice covers the following topics: Using Information Publisher –Viewing out-of-box reports: — Availability History (Target) — Database Instance Overview — Web Application Transaction Performance Summary: By Beacon –Creating a custom Host Comparison report –Creating a custom Availability History report –Sharing and scheduling reports –Viewing, customizing, and sharing the Services Monitoring Dashboard