Monitoring Your Network - Generating Reports - Adding a Report -
Previous: Reports Shipped with NerveCenter     Next: Generating a Report

Adding a Report

If you or someone else at your site has created a custom report using the procedure described in Designing and Managing Behavior Models, you can run that report from the Reports window, provided that you've first added the custom report to the report list.

---

Note    Before you can add a custom report to the NerveCenter Client, the custom report file must reside in CustomRPT, found under the NerveCenter installation folder.

---

 
  To add a custom report:

1. Choose Reports from the client's Admin menu.

   The Reports window is displayed.

   Reports Window

   

   Click the thumbnail above to view full-sized image.

2. Select the New button.

The New Report dialog is displayed.

New Report Dialog

1. Enter the name for the report in the Report Name field.
2. Select the file you want to use as your report from the Available Reports list. This list contains the names of available Crystal Reports files extracted from the CustomRPT folder on the server.
3. You can optionally enter the name of the author and change the date. Once the report is added to the Report List window, you can sort and search reports by either field.
4. In the Description textbox, enter the description you want to appear on the Report List window.
5. If the report you are adding is an ODBC-based report (such as the downstream node availability reports shipped with NerveCenter), select the check box for Override Server Name in Report. This check box forces NerveCenter to run the report against the NerveCenter database on the NerveCenter Server rather than the database server. (This feature enables you to construct reports locally before you run them on the system on which NerveCenter is installed.)

   If the report is based on an event log, clicking this check box causes the report to run against the event log on the NerveCenter Server. Otherwise, the report runs against the event log on the NerveCenter Client.

6. Select OK.

The new report is added to the Report List window.