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Automatic Reporting
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Automatic Reporting Benefits

• Computer systems are a critical resource
• Performance crucial to business objectives
• Active management a must
• Need information for decision-making
• Timely
• Accurate
• Helpful
• AUTOMATIC

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Intranet-based Performance Reporting
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Expanding the APR Structure
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Advisor Report UNIX CPU Usage
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Advisor Report Top N UNIX Users
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Advisor Report UNIX Disk Activity
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Advisor Report Disk Response Time
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Advisor Report UNIX CPU Trend
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Optional Alert Propagation
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Advisor Report Windows CPU Usage
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Advisor Report Oracle Buffer Cache
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Ready-Made Reports for UNIX
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Ready-Made Reports for Windows
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Ready-Made Reports for Oracle
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Creating your Own Reports

• Metrics that Advisor doesnt report on
• Custom metrics, e.g. business statistics
• Different graphical requirements
• Different report format or style
• Spreadsheet
• Word document with embedded graphics
• Stand-alone charts
• Athenes Define a Report application

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Creating your Own Reports
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Define a Report Select the database
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Define a Report Choose the metrics
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Define a Report Choose the Context
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Define a Report Aggregation
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Define a Report Description
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Define a Report Resulting Chart
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User Defined Reports in Advisor
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Specifying the Analysis Period
The Analysis Period is the period of time that
the report is to cover.
The Production Date is the date when the report
is actually produced.
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Specifying the Threshold Values
Thresholds are the values used by Advisor for its
interpretation of the data.
You can specify your own threshold values, or use
Athenes defaults.
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Exceptions, Incidents and Actions
Incidents are raised at run time, when the report
is produced. For a trend report, this could be a
predicted problem far in the future.
If an incident occurs, you can cause a named
person or group to be e-mailed automatically.
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User-Defined Report with Interpretation
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Word Document example

• The chart (and its header) has been updated
• The surrounding text has not been updated

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Excel Spreadsheet example
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Scheduling your Automatic Report Production

• How often?
• Hourly
• Daily
• Weekly, monthly, every so many days
• What period of time?
• Today so far
• Yesterday
• Last two days, last week, year to date
• How far forward for trend reports?
• To a fixed date
• Until a certain value is reached
• For the next week, month, year

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Schedule Production Date
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Trend Parameters
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Publishing your Reports

• Who needs to see the report?
• Technical colleagues
• Management
• Everybody
• Dispatch Methods
• E-mail
• File Save (to a website, for example)
• FTP
• Print
• Review before Dispatch
• Optionally view the reports yourself before they
  are published

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Report Dispatch Methods
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Performance Reporting - Recap
This structure is just an example. You can
organise your reports in any way you like.
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Summary
Athene Performance Reporting

• Extensive libraries of ready-made reports
• UNIX, Windows, Oracle
• Accurate, helpful reports for minimum effort
• Automatic production, dispatch, alerting
• Create your own reports
• Complete control over contents and appearance
• Standard and Custom metrics

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And finally
Athene Performance Reporting

• Any Questions ???

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