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Chapter 12. Reports

Red Hat CloudForms provides a large group of default reports organized into categories. Each category has its own set of subfolders. These reports have been constructed to help you view the most commonly requested and significant data.

The categories of predefined reports available on Red Hat CloudForms are:

  • Configuration Management: hardware, application, network, service, user account, operating system, and snapshot information for all of your items.
  • Migration Readiness: information related to items required to migrate a virtual machine.

  • Operations: free space on registered and unregistered virtual machines, power states for virtual machines, and SmartState analysis status.

    This category also provides reports relating to the operation of Red Hat CloudForms, such as user IDs and snapshots taken by Red Hat CloudForms.

  • VM Sprawl: usage information and disk waste.
  • Relationships: virtual machine, folder, and cluster relationships.
  • Events: operations and configuration management events.

  • Performance by Asset Type: performance of your virtual infrastructure.

    You must be capturing capacity and utilization data to get this information.

  • Running Processes: information on processes running on a virtual machine.

    You must have domain credentials entered for the zone to collect the information for these reports, and the virtual machine must have been analyzed at least once.

  • Trending: projections of datastore capacity, along with host CPU and memory use.
  • Tenants: quotas report aggregated by each tenant that shows quota name, total quota, in use, allocated, and available. The report currently lists all tenants and there is no nesting information available by parent and child tenants.
  • Provisioning: provisioning activity based on the approver, datastore, requester, and virtual machine.

For more detailed information on managing reports, see Monitoring, Alerts, and Reporting.

12.1. Generating a Single Report

  1. Navigate to Cloud Intel → Reports
  2. Click the Reports accordion and select the report you want to view.
  3. Click 1847 (Queue).

  4. The report generation is placed on the queue and its status shows in the reports page.

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  5. Click 2106 (Reload current display) to update the status.
  6. When a report has finished generating, click on its row to view it.

12.2. Scheduling a Report

You can view historical data by creating reports on a scheduled basis. In addition, scheduled reports can be emailed directly to users:

  1. Navigate to Cloud Intel → Reports
  2. Click the Reports accordion and select the report you want to view.
  3. Click 1847 (Configuration), then Add a new Schedule.
  4. Fill in the Basic Information section.
  5. Configure the Report Selection.
  6. Configure the report’s schedule and frequency in the Timer section.
  7. Click Save.

12.3. Viewing Reports

Once you have created a schedule for a report, you can view it at any time after the first scheduled time has occurred.

  1. Navigate to Cloud Intel → Reports.
  2. Click the Saved Reports accordion or the Reports accordion.
  3. Click on the instance of the report you want to view.