Report Viewer overview

The report viewer available in the Reporting Viewing perspective provides a web-based tool for generating and displaying Aperi reports. The report viewer is a web application comprised of servlets and JSPs that encapsulate the BIRT Report Engine API to generate reports. In addition to generating reports, it supports HTML pagination, PDF, Table of Contents (TOC) functionality, and export to CSV.

Before you begin using the the report viewer, make sure to do the following:

1. Install Aperi and related third-party libraries. See the Aperi installation instructions for more information: http://www.eclipse.org/aperi/documentation.
   
   
2. Start the Aperi RCP GUI and log in using your Aperi user ID. The level of authority (role) associated with your Aperi user ID determines the functions and reports that are accessible to you once you access the report viewer. Use the Administrative Services > Configuration > Role-to-group Mapping window to assign roles to anyone who will be using Aperi. The following levels of authorization are used in the report viewer.
   • standard user role: enables users to view reports and their properties. Note that the ability to view reports can also depend upon the operator role associated with a user ID. For example, a user with the Data Operator role will be able to view reports related to Data Manager, but might not have access to reports related to Tape Manager.
   • super user and Aperi administrator roles: grant users full access to all available functions in the report viewer which includes the ability to view all reports, view report properties, edit reports, delete reports, upload new reports, and manage the report directories that appear in the report repository tree.

   Use the Administrative Services > Configuration > Role-to-group Mapping window in the Aperi GUI to assign roles to anyone who will be using the application. See the Authorizing users section in the Aperi user's guide for more information about how to assign roles to users.
   
   

3. Run data collection jobs to gather storage information about storage assets. See Monitoring for information about how to use monitoring jobs to collect data about storage assets.