Creating Reports for SCOM and SCVMM - Microsoft System Center Reporting - page 182

How to do it...
In this section, we will demonstrate how you can access reports from the Reporting node
in the Operations Manager Console. Perform the following steps:
1. Navigate to the Reporting node of the Operations Manager Console.
2. Under the Reporting node, you will see folders that contain reports from different
management packs. Click on the Microsoft Generic Report Library folder.
3. You will see the reports listed in the view. In this example, we want to retrieve a
list of all the alerts that concern our domain controllers from the last 30 days. Click
on the Alerts report and then click on Open from the taskbar.
4. In the parameter section, define the filters you would like to apply to the report.
For instance, under From , click on Previous month then click First day , and un-
der To , click on Previous month . Then, click on Last day .
5. When running Operations Manager reports, you always have to select the objects
or groups of objects you want to include in your report. In this example, we will
select the All Windows Computers group. Click on Add Group… and perform
the following steps:
1. In Group Name: Contains , type All Windows Computers .
2. Click on Search . Select All Windows Computers under Available items .
3. Click on Add . Click on OK .
6. Click on Run from the toolbar to generate and view the report, as shown in the fol-
lowing screenshot:
7. If you want to change the parameters for your report, click on the View menu and
then click on Parameters .
8. You can export reports to various file formats. Click on the File menu. Then, click
on Export and choose the desired format to export the report.