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Web-based reports: A few questions

Dear Thwack geek's,

With SolarWinds NPM 10.6, we are happy that is a possibility to build your custom graphical reports. This week, I am rebuilding the reports generated by our current monitoring system, with the SolarWinds NPM 10.6 reporteditor.

The most of these reports are bandwidth reports, presenting the bandwidth of in- and outgoing traffic with a separate graph per interface. In the current reporting system that is achieved by grouping interfaces together, after that, it is automatically generating the bandwidth reports on one graph per interface base.

In the new SolarWinds Reporting generator (NPM 10.6), you have to do a long selection procedure per interface, to get separate bandwidth reports per interface When you select more than one interface per node, SolarWinds generates all interfaces in one graph, the interfaces are presented by means of different colors. When you have to report on more than 2 interfaces per node, this method generates one very colorful graph (with all selected interfaces per node), but that is not giving a clear overview.

In the resulting report, all elements selected including the descriptions are presented in the report header, making it very inconvenient.

There is also a problem with the slider at the bottom of the graph. When you convert the report in .pdf form, this slider is also visible in the pdf document converted, this is not giving a very professional look.

My questions are:

Does anyone know a way to be able to select all interfaces you want to report on from one node, and present them in separated graphs, with only the in-and outgoing bandwidth in separate colors ?
How can I edit the header of a report, without automatic overview of selected elements ?
How can I get rid of the slider at the bottom of a graph ?
Were are the customized reports stored, and is it possible to edit such a file ?

In the SolarWinds Technical reference of the web-based reporting, I could not find a solution for this yet.

Thanks for your attention,

Regards,

Sef

Thanks for your attention,

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rob.hock

Hi Sef,

Please find answers below:

1. Not natively in the UI, this would likely have to be a custom SQL report

2. Yes, this can be done for the report overall (on the main layout page) and also per chart (just edit the title.) If you gethund-up here, kindly send a screenshot of what you would like to change.

3. What resource are you seeing this with? Screenshot would be handy.

4. Reports are stored within the DB as XML. What would you be looking to do editing the report directly as opposed to through the UI?

solarview

The problem is that in the standard web-based UI, if you want to get separate graphs per interface, you have to do the whole source selection procedure. Now we generate bandwidth reports by a CA tool, Solarwinds NPM is going to take over this function. In the current Webbase report generator, If I select the basic device selection, and then more than one interface per node, all graphs are presented in one graph, also when you copy the layout to a second graph, and change the layout for the second one, all graphs are changed because they are stored under the same name.

I will give you a screenshot:

image002.png

And generate a report for these interfaces:

image005.png

image003.png

the report of multiple interfaces per node is all in one graph:

image002.png

This looks very colorful, but, it is unreadable. If there was an option to generate separate graphs per interface, this would be of great help !

In the attachment, you can find a report, that we would like to generate, in this way, only there are some drawbacks:

- In the header all selected interfaces including their if –alias are presented…

- When I select a report of last month, a slider appears (not always) In a .pdf report this has no use…

Thanks for your help,

regards, Sef

I meant that is would be easier to compose a report in this way when many interfaces are to be reported on in one report, by simply ? editing the .xml file…

attachments.zip

ecklerwr1

Can't you just create two reports one for each of the interfaces and then put them next to each other in a view?

I could be wrong I'm just thinking how I would do it. :^} I do something like that below...

NOTE: These weren't web based but you can do the same thing with them in views.

For you I would create one for each interface and then arrange them however you want for your view!

ScreenHunter_03 Oct. 03 12.35.gif

solarview

Hi ecklerwr1,

Thanks for thinking about this problem.

You wrote: Can't you just create two reports one for each of the interfaces and then put them next to each other in a view?

That is the way I now have to make the reports, but when you have to make a bandwidth report on 50 interfaces, this method is very clumsy. It would be a solution, if it was possible to select more than one interfaces at a time, in one node, and get separate graphs per interface, instead of all interfaces in a very unreadable graph.