Reporting Groups - Overview

A Reporting Group is a user-defined set of resources and groups upon which you want to report. When you generate a report, storage statistics about a reporting group will appear in the corresponding "By Group" clause for that report. For example, if you generate a Disk Capacity > By Computer Group report, that report will display information about the computer reporting groups you have defined. Unlike monitoring groups, a resource can appear in one or more reporting groups.

Use reporting groups to view storage information about:

• resources that appear in different monitoring groups. Because a resource can appear in only one monitoring group at a time, you can use reporting groups to include resources from different monitoring groups and view reports on them.
• a subset of resources within a monitoring group. For example, you can create a reporting group for a specific subset of computers with the Payroll monitoring group and generate a report containing information about those computers.

You can create two different reporting groups:

• Computer
• Filesystem

A reporting group can be part of another reporting group. You can define a monitoring group to be part of a reporting group. In this case, the monitoring group will be a subset of the reporting group. However, a reporting group cannot be a part of a monitoring group.

To create a new reporting group:

1. Expand the Reporting > Groups nodes of the navigation tree.
2. Right-click the type of reporting group you want to create. A pop-up menu appears.
3. Select "Create Computer Group" or "Create Filesystem Group" from the pop-up menu. The content pane displays a window for defining the reporting group.
4. Define information about the reporting group in the content pane.
5. Click to save the reporting group definition.

To edit an existing reporting group:

1. Expand the Reporting > Groups section of the navigation tree.
2. Click the name of the reporting group you want to edit. The content pane displays information about that reporting group.
3. Edit the values defined for the reporting group as desired.
4. Click to save the updated reporting group definition.