HP Storage Essentials DB Viewer, Storage Essentials Standard Edition SRM Quick Start Manual

HP Storage Essentials Storage Resource
Management Report Optimizer Software 6.0

Quick Start Guide

Second edition: October 2008

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HP Storage Essentials Storage Resource Management Report Optimizer Software Quick Start Guide

Contents

About this guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .v

Intended audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v

Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v

Related documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v

Document conventions and symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi

HP technical support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

HP-authorized reseller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

Helpful web sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

Contents

SRM Report Optimizer Quick Start Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Installing a permanent license key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Accessing the Central Management Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Accessing the SRM Report Optimizer web interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Creating a new report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

“Select a context” message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Saving reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Best Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Exporting a report in Excel, CSV, or PDF format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Using existing reports as a baseline to create new reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Best practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Modifying an existing report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Adding new charts to reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Emailing reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Scheduling a report to be emailed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Sending a unique report URL in an email. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Backing up new reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Best Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Restoring backup up reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Refreshing out-of-date report data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Best practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Seeing how many users are logged on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

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About this guide

This guide provides a basic overview of several common Report Optimizer tasks, and provides
references to other documents for more detailed information.

Intended audience

This guide is intended for:

• Storage Administrators

• System Administrators

Prerequisites

Prerequisite knowledge for using this product includes:

• Networking

• Storage Area Networks (SANs)

Related documentation

SRM Report Optimizer ships with the following additional documentation:

Table 1 Additional Documentation

Document Description

HP Storage Essentials Storage Resource
Management Report Optimizer
Software Installation Guide

HP Storage Essentials Storage Resource
Management Report Optimizer
Software InfoView User’s Guide.

Provides Information about installing and configuring SRM Report
Optimizer on Microsoft Windows.

Provides information about using InfoView, the corporate business
intelligence portal. This guide shows you how to view, schedule,
and organize reports over the web using InfoView. It also
describes the different report viewers and shows you how to
publish reports to the system.

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Table 1 Additional Documentation

Document Description

Performing On-Report Analysis with
Web Intelligence.

Building Reports Using the Web
Intelligence Java Report Panel

Contexts Guide Provides information about the contexts that are defined in SRM

Provides information about viewing, analyzing, and enhancing
Web Intelligence reports interactively on the web. This guide
includes information on filtering and sorting report data, adding
calculations, and modifying the formatting and data content of
reports (all without needing to launch a Web Intelligence report
panel).

Provides information about using the Web Intelligence Java Report
Panel for reporting and analysis. This guide includes detailed
explanations of power features, such as including advanced filters
and formulas.

Report Optimizer. Contexts show the relationships between objects
in a report.

Document conventions and symbols

Table 2 Document conventions

Convention Element

Medium blue text: Figure 1 Cross-reference links and e-mail addresses

Medium blue, underlined text
(http://www.hp.com)

Web site addresses

Bold font • Key names

• Text typed into a GUI element, such as into a box

• GUI elements that are clicked or selected, such as menu and

list items, buttons, and check boxes

Italics font Text emphasis

Monospace font • File and directory names

• System output

• Code

• Text typed at the command-line

Monospace, italic font • Code variables

• Command-line variables

Monospace, bold font Emphasis of file and directory names, system output, code, and

text typed at the command line

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