6.2 Viewing the Reports

Novell Sentinel Log Manager users can view the report template and report results that are in the system. The reports are loaded and displayed in the left pane of the page. Click More > Show All Reports to view all reports or click More > Only Show Scheduled Reports to show only the scheduled reports.

The report results for each users varies depending on the data security settings configured for the role of that user.

All the report results are ordered by the creation time. If there is more than one report, the show more link displays the other report results.

In the Report Viewer, the Favorites and Other sections show the number of unread reports with a blue dot next to them.

The count next to Favorite and Other shows the number of report definitions under the Favorite and Other sections.

A blue dot next to the report result indicates that the report result is unread. For more information, see Marking Report Results as Read or Unread.

6.2.1 Viewing the Report Result in PDF Format

  1. Log in to Sentinel Log Manager.

  2. In the Reports section, select the report definition that you want to run, then click Run.

  3. Click the report definition to view the report results in the Report Viewer pane. An unread report result appears with a blue dot next to it.

  4. Select a report result.

  5. To view the report in PDF format, click the PDF icon.

  6. View the report parameter values used to run the report at the bottom left corner of the page.

    When a report definition is expanded, some report definitions display a Sample Report link, if a report definition contains a sample report.

  7. Click Sample Report to display a View link.

  8. Click View to find out how the completed report looks with a set of sample data.

    Report results are organized from newest to oldest.

6.2.2 Drilling Down into Report Results

The drill-down viewing option provides the ability to launch a search with the same query and time frame that was used to generate the report. This option allows users to view details of the event used to generate the report.

Drill-down feature is available only on reports that run against the file-based event store, or multiple event stores, in the case of a distributed query. It is not available on Sentinel Log Manager configuration reports which run against the database.

Drill-down feature is available only on reports that specify the Lucene query in the main .jrxml file of the report. This is true for most reports that are written by Novell, with the exception of a few reports that rely on multiple subreports, such as the Novell Top Ten reports.

The report results that were generated in versions of Sentinel Log Manager older than 1.1 are not drillable. However, to enable these reports as drillable, you can run the report again after upgrading to Sentinel Log Manager 1.1 or higher.

  1. Log in to Sentinel Log Manager.

  2. In the Reports section, select the report you want to run, then click Run.

  3. Click the report definition to view the report results in the Report Viewer pane. An unread report result appears with a blue dot next to it.

  4. Select a report result.

  5. Click the drill-down icon to launch the drill-down query.

6.2.3 Viewing Report Parameters

The Report Viewer pane on the left side of the page displays a status pane at the bottom left corner of the page. The status pane displays the parameter information associated with the selected report. It also displays the error messages, if the report execution resulted in an error.

  1. Log in to Sentinel Log Manager.

  2. In the Reports section, click a report definition to expand it.

  3. Select the report to view the parameters associated with the selected report.

    The report parameters are displayed in the status pane.