Is there any way to add the graphs we see in NPM for various network nodes such as trends for bandwidth, percent usage on interfaces, etc into a custome report?
You could create a view with the graphs and the report on it, and then email the view through the Report Scheduler utility.
I am new to solar winds, so forgive my ignorance!
But wear do you create this "view" at?
I am new to solar winds, so forgive my ignorance!But wear do you create this "view" at?
Go into the Admin (click "Settings" in upper right corner) section of the WebUI and from there choose the option "Manage Views". In here you can create different dashboards when can then be used to send as reports.
Hope this helps!
then of course, following the creation of your view, you would need to be logged on to the server and navigate to start>programs>solarwindsorion>alerting,reporting, and mapping>report scheduler. This opens up the reports scheduler utilty where you can create a job to email a web page using the url. it works great, and looks nice for any who are receiving it.
This might be helpful.
http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/Orion/docs/UnderstandingOrionReportWriter.pdf
thanks, can this be done on a per site basis, and then scheduled to be emailed out say once a week? Manager wants this automated to show trends over last 30 days for each node....
Sure. This is the whole purpose of the Report Scheduler utility. You schedule it once, daily, weekly, monthly, etc. at a certain time to email whichever view/dashboard that you want. It pulls a snapshot of the page at that time and emails it. Your view/dashboard would need to be configured to show the charts on it, and you would need to set the time frame for last 30 days. Also, the view just needs to be in the system, so it doesn't need to be on a menu bar or as someone's summary or anything. You will just need to know the url, so you can create it and then just copy it from the browser.
Hope this helps.
