In special situations, if
the default reports do not meet your needs, you might want to create
a custom report.
Before you begin
Before you create a custom report, determine the ways in which
your custom report will be different from—or similar to—the system-supplied
reports. You can use a system-supplied report as a template and modify
it by adding and removing counters. You can also create a report from
scratch. The help topic explains the counters for your
protocol.
Procedure
- Click .
- In the Name field of the Test Report window, type the name of the new report.
- The Report Tabs list is empty because
you are creating a new report (rather than editing a report). Click Insert to enter information about the tab.
- In the Report Tab window, in the Title field, type the name of the new tab.
- Select a tab for an existing report as a template, or select
a custom tab based on the general format for your new report:
- The Performance Tab, Summary
Tab, Page Throughput Tab, Server Health tabs, and Response vs. Time tabs all are included in the Performance report.
- The Page Element Throughput Tab and
the Page Element Summary Tab are included in
the Page Element report.
- The Transaction Throughput Tab and
the Transaction Summary Tab are included in
the Transaction report.
- The Verification Point Summary Tab is
included in the Verification Points report.
- The Custom Tab (n graphics) option creates a
new tab with the indicated number of graphics. Tables are considered
graphics.
- Click Next.
- The number of wizard pages that you see, and the information
that they contain, depend on the template you selected. You will see
two wizard pages for each graphic. You select the graphic type (bar
chart, line chart, or table) in the first window. You select the counters
in the second window.
- Type the title of the tab.
- If necessary, change the graphic type. The
graphic type selected depends on your template. For example, if you
chose Performance Tab, the title of the tab
is Performance and the graphic type is Bar Chart, which is the type of chart that the Performance
tab displays.
- Click Next. Although
you can click Add to filter the report now,
it is best to create the report first, and filter the data after you
examine the report. You can filter a report by count, by value, or
by label.
- The data on this page depends on the graphic type that
you selected. For example, Performance report pages contain default
performance counters, Summary report pages contain the default summary
counters, and so on.
- To add new counters, click the Add button, and select the type of counters to add. The Add/Remove Counters
wizard opens for you to select the counters to include in the report. Typically, you add generic counters to a report because the
counters are updated each time you regenerate the report. However,
you can also create a baseline report with static information—that
is, a report where the counters are taken from the same control test
run rather than updated with current results. To create a baseline
report, do not add the counters now. Instead, add them when the report
is displayed by dragging counters from the Performance Test Runs view
onto the report.
- If there are multiple graphics, click Next to display the title and graphic type for the next graphic.
- When you are finished selecting the graphics and counters,
click Finish.
Results
You can now manage and edit this report just as you do the
default reports. When you right-click an item in the Test Runs view,
and then click
Display Reports, the new report
is listed with the system-supplied reports.