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Operations Reports allows you to create your own reports with the data of your choice. This is useful when the data you need is more specific than what is represented by a prepackaged report. For example, the Mobility Gateway prepackaged reports provide a snapshot view of the services configured on selected devices but they do not provide full details of the services. You can create a new report that includes these details.
The first step in creating a new report is to select the data source on which the report will be based, which will determine what type of information that will be available for inclusion in the report. Then, you can drag and drop the required information into the report, and group and filter it as required. Operations Reports provides live rendering of the report which means that you can see the report layout as you build it.
Once you have created your new report, you can save it in the relevant report folder - Fault, Data Center, Mobility, or Physical Inventory. You can export the report to a format of your choice, including HTML, PDF, CSV, or Excel. On the new report you create, you can add templates, filter, group, and sort data further. Formatting changes can be made on the fly.
All the reports that you create are available in the location it was saved to at the time of creation.
Note You cannot delete interactive reports and the folders.
To create a new interactive report, follow the steps below. To illustrate the procedure, we will create an example Mobility report to display details of the LTE services in the network.
Step 1 From the Operations Reports home page, go to File > New > Interactive Report .
The Select Data Source dialog box appears.
Step 2 Select the Data Source that is appropriate for your report, and click OK . To determine the data source that is appropriate for the report you need, see Choosing a Data Source to Determine the Report Content Type.
To generate an LTE services report, choose LTE.
The Interactive Reporting page appears.
Step 3 To add your first column, click and drag a field from the Browse pane and onto the report pane. You can add as many columns as you require to the report. Repeat this step until you have all the columns of your report in place. For Portrait layout, we recommend that your report contains not more than 7 columns; for Landscape layout, limit the number of columns to up to 12 columns.
Tip If you want to make sure subsequent columns appear in correct order, drag and drop the columns, as required. Click the Undo or Redo buttons in your toolbar, if required.
Figure 4-1 Creating New Interactive Report
You can save your report at this point or continue customizing it. For information on customizing reports, see Customizing Reports.
For this example LTE services report, drag the parameters Device Name, SAE Gateway Service Name, Context Name, Packet Data Network Gateway (PGW) service name, and Serving Gateway (SGW) onto the report. The report displays the SAE gateway, SGW, PGW that are configured for a particular context in each device.
Step 4 Click the Save icon on the toolbar.
Step 5 In the File Name text box, enter a file name for your report.
Step 6 Browse to locate the folder in which to save your report. The path to the folder which will contain your report appears in the Location text box. You cannot save a report in the root directory.
Step 8 By default, the title of an interactive report reads Untitled . To change the title, double-click the word Untitled on the upper left corner of the report. Perform the same procedure to change the footer of a report.
Step 9 You can apply templates, change the format and the layout of the report you created. For more information, see Changing the Report Template.
The generated LTE report appears as depicted in Figure 4-2.
Figure 4-2 LTE Service Report—Example
By default, interactive reports are updated with the latest changes in database when you open the report from the left navigation pane. If new devices are added, the devices appear in the Device Selector list after one hour of generation of the report for the first time. To view the updated list of devices in the Device Selector, close and reopen the report.
However, it takes up to five minutes for changes made in the Prime Network GUI clients to be reflected in Operations Reports. For example, when a VNE is added to the system, it is not shown in Operations Reports until the discovery is complete which could take up to five minutes. Other changes to devices, such as port up/down, might take less time to be reflected in the reports. After five minutes, click View Report for the report to be updated with the relevant data.
If you prefer the report to be created as you generate and perform the customization, enable the auto refresh option. When you disable the Auto Refresh mode, you can design your report layout first, including calculations and filtering, without querying the database until you are done. Once the report layout is complete, you can re-enable Auto Refresh. Data retrieval will occur once and your report will display the requested data. Disable auto refresh if you want to reduce the number of queries executed against the data source or if you know that the data source returns data slowly. Follow the procedure given below to enable auto refresh:
Step 1 Open the interactive report. From the left navigation pane, select the Query Settings icon.
Figure 4-3 Enabling Auto Refresh Option
Interactive reports rely on data sources to determine the type of content that will be displayed in the report. Operations Reports provides a predefined set of data sources, each of which extracts from the database a different set of parameters that can be included in the report. From this master list of parameters, you can choose those you want to use in your report. For example, using the model Active Tickets, you can view the following data of active tickets (tickets that are not archived): Location, Severity, Event Count, Device, Count, Duplication Count, Reduction Count, Alarm Count, Affected Devices Count, Acknowledged, Last Modification Time, Description, and Date/Time. This section describes the content that each data source provides and maps the data sources to the relevant report type - fault, physical inventory, mobility, or data center. To view the data that can be represented by each data source, see Appendix A, “Predefined Data in Data Sources” .
Note The functionality to create a new Data Source has not been tested and validated on Prime Network 4.2.2 Operations Reports.
Generates a report on devices that are monitored. Provides information on the following: |
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Generates a report on the module details such as:
Note To generate meaningful reports with module and sub-module data, you must include one of the following combinations: – Module name and module details or sub-module details – Module name and sub-module name. A combination of module details and sub-module details will not render a meaningful report. |
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Provides a report on the hardware inventory details:
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Generates a report on mobility applications for the following details:
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For the selected CDMA service, generates a report on the following: |
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Generates a report on the following for the selected CDMA-SAE service: |
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For the selected LTE, the report displays the following:
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Presents a report on the inventory; for the selected vCenter, represents the following: |
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For the selected device, displays event details such as location, alarm ID, count, device type, severity. |
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For a selected device, provides a list of all active events, with details such as duplication count, reduction count. |
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For the selected device, generates a report on the number of active tickets, location, severity, alarm count, duplication and reduction count. |
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For a selected device, presents details on the event type, count, first and last occurrence, severity, device, device type. |
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For the selected device, generates a report on the number of active tickets, location, severity, alarm count, duplication and reduction count. |
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For the selected device, displays information such as, event count, reduction count, duplication count, causing event ID, severity, and location. |
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For the selected pseudowire, the report displays the network pseudowire name, type, business tag, and map name. |
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For the selected VPLS, the report displays the VPLS name, business tag, and map name. |