Advanced Reporting: Drive Utilization Settings

This page allows you to create reports that show drive usage information about the optimum capacity of each drive. This report is only available if you have purchased and installed the Advanced Reporting License Key (Feature Code 1650).

Screen Element Description
Date Range Choose the range of dates to be included in the current report by clicking on one of the radio buttons. Valid options are Last 7 Days, Last 4 Weeks, Last 3 Months, or All History. The default is Last 4 Weeks.
Attribute Choose the values that you want included in the current report by clicking one of the listed Attributes. Valid options are Data Written/Read (the amount of data written to and read from each drive), Total Read and Write (the combined total of all drives), Mount Count (the number of tape cartridge mounts), Media Mount Time (The totale amount of time a cartridge spends in a selected drive) , or Media Motion Time (the total amount of time the cartridge spent writing, reading, or rewinding). The default is Data Written/Read.
Type Specify the report type by selecting one of the radio buttons. Valid options are Rollup (displays the number of tape alerts for the combination of Grouping and Attributes) or Trend (displays the occurrence of tape alerts over time). The default is to display a Rollup chart.
Chart Specify the way you want to display the information by selecting one of the radio buttons. Valid options are Area, Bar, Line, or Pie charts. The default is a Bar chart.
Grouping Specify the drive(s) or cartridge(s) on which to base the report by selecting one of the radio buttons. If you select Selected Drive by Coordinate, you must also choose the specific drive from the drop-down box. If you select Selected Drive by Physical SN, you must also choose the specific drive from the drop-down box. If you select Selected Partition, you must also choose the specific cartridge from the drop-down box. If you select any of the other options (All Drives By Coordinate, All Drives By Physical SN, or All Partitions), the report will group the results by the specified parameter. The default is to include All Drives by Coordinate.
Report Templates

Once you've set the parameters that you want for a specific report, you can save the settings as a Report Template. You can then simply reload that template any time you want to run the same report again. Report Template functions include:

Load–Select a template from the drop-down box and click Load to use pre-defined report settings.

Delete–Select a template from the drop-down box and click Delete to remove the template from the system.

Save–Type a new name in the blank text box, then click Save to create a new template. The new template name will display in the drop-down box.

Report Data

When you first open the Advanced Reporting Settings window, the system automatically loads the data from your system logs in preparation for creating your reports. If the system adds information to the logs while you have this window open, you must reload the log data in order to display the new data.

Reload–Click this button to load the latest log information into the Advanced Reporting system.

Delete–Click this button to remove all data from the Advanced Reporting system and your system logs. Note that this is a permanent removal of the data, reloading will not recover deleted data.

Display Report Click Display Report to display the report as defined by the report settings on this page.