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QuickReporter for ITM is a simple yet effective solution for generating
reports on resources managed by the new IBM
Tivoli Monitoring (ITM and ITCAM) products,
that provide neither native reporting features
nor an out-of-the-box integration to reporting
systems
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QuickReporter for ITM is based on BIRT, a proven open-source technology that is
part of the Eclipse project, and does not
require any database skill or knowledge of
Tivoli DataWarehouse (TDW) data schema.
QuickReporter for ITM provides a large catalog (hundreds) of predefined
reports for the following resource managed
by Tivoli: operating systems (Windows, UNIX, iSeries and Linux), databases (IBM DB2, Oracle and Microsoft SQL), Active
Directory, Exchange and others. Some sample
of the available reports can be downloaded
from PRIMEUR web site (for Windows, UNIX, DB2, OS/400, Oracle, Exchange). Now Version 2.0 also allows you to create and generate custom
reports into QuickReporter for ITM.
QuickReporter for ITM has been certified by IBM as a Ready for Tivoli solution and it is published on IBM OPAL (Open Process Automation Library) website.
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QuickReporter for ITM version 1.4 released on December 4th provides
several additional features:
- Resource Groups: resources can now be grouped into logical
groups that can be selected as targets for
the report generation; Resources Groups can
be dynamically defined, i.e. to include
some specific resources such a set of critical
Windows systems managed by Tivoli; pre-defined
Resources Groups are already defined for
each available Resource Type;
- Report e-mail forwarding: reports can now be generated and forwarded
by e-mail to predefined recepients.
QuickReporter for ITM Version 2.0 released on December 21th provides you with
the ability to create and generate custom
reports by specifying any report property,
such as the involved metrics and time intervals
of interest. Some examples of the custom
reports that can be generated by QuickReporter for ITM are included.
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QuickReporter for ITM main features are:
- Reports can be generated either at scheduled
time or on demand
- Reports can be generated for specific resources
managed by Tivoli, as discovered from TDW
- Reports can be generated in both PDF and
HTML format
- Reports can be of different types: trend
or rank; daily, weekly and monthly based;
single or multi-metric
- Predefined reports can be personalized, by
specifying fonts, colors, background, spacing
between the graphical elements and (company)
logo
- An user-friendly Web interface (see figure
below) can be used to both configure (admin
role) the reports to be generated and to
view or save (user role) generated reports.
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