Reporting Central; Appliance Registration; Registering An Appliance - HPE StoreOnce 6500 User Manual

Reporting Central

Reporting central allows you to view the status, throughput, and storage details of local and remote
StoreOnce appliances. You can create groups of either appliances or virtual devices and then run reports
that pull data from these groups. You can also perform system resource monitoring.
To use reporting central, you will need to do the following:
• Register any appliance you want to pull reports for. See Appliance registration on page 137.
• Configure groups containing registered appliances and their devices. See Group configuration on
page 141.
• Run reports using the configured groups of appliances and virtual devices. See Appliance reports on
page 147 and Device reports on page 156.
NOTE: Depending on the number of data points available for the X axis, the data might be sampled to
make the graphs more readable. This usually means displaying a longer time period than you
selected.
• Perform resource monitoring. Resource monitoring includes CPU/Memory, Disk Utilization, Network
Utilization, and Fibre Channel Utilization (for units that support Fibre Channel). See System resource
reporting on page 161.
The Reporting Central page allows you to quickly view a snapshot of the status and capacity usage of
registered appliances.
NOTE: Appliances that are in the Unknown state do not contribute to the file system usage total, the bar
graphs, or the deduplication ratio shown on this page, even though the appliances are listed as monitored
appliances.

Appliance registration

"Appliance" refers to a StoreOnce System. You can use your local appliance to monitor and view reports
for remote appliances. You first need to register any remote appliance that you want to see data for in
Reporting Central.
See the following topics for more information:
• Registering an appliance on page 137
• Modifying appliance details on page 140
• Unregister an appliance on page 140
• Importing certificates on page 139

Registering an appliance

Before you can generate reports for an appliance other than the local appliance, you must register that
appliance and import the SSL certificate from either the appliance or the certification authority (CA).
If you installed an SSL certificate on your StoreOnce appliances that was obtained from a CA, you only
need to import the CA certificate (not the SSL certificates) to Reporting Central. If you have not installed
Reporting Central 137