The IBM Tivoli Netcool/Reporter 2.0 Designer course provides students with the ability to create templates which may subsequently be used to generate reports in a variety of formats such as text based reports, drill-down, bar chart, pie chart, three dimensional, and worksheet. Students will learn how to schedule and distribute reports.
An Oracle 8i instance, Netcool/OMNIbus v3.6, an Oracle Gateway and the Netcool/Reporter Server are preinstalled on each student’s Solaris8 workstation. The student learns how to access the Netcool/Reporter User Interface with a web browser. A variety of report templates will be generated and tested. All the Netcool/Reporter User features and functions will be taught.
Objectives
Upon completion of this course, each student will understand how to use Netcool/Reporter version 2.0 to design report templates and subsequently generate reports and charts in all the possible formats. Students will:
Learn how to access the User Interface with a web browser
Learn how to navigate the User Interface
Understand how to design templates for each type of report
Know how to use each of the Design tabs
Learn how to preview a report
Learn the purpose of the Report properties
Learn how to summarize data and provide drill-down capability
Learn how to publish reports to Channels, Users and Groups
Be able to use Lightweight Chart properties
Be able to use the Freeform Report Designer
Understand the differences among Crosstabs, Cubes and Presentations
Be able to use the Information Designer in conjunction with Easy Reporter
Schedule report generation
Use the HTML Customizer
Course outline
Agenda - Day 1
Course Overview and Introductions
Starting the Reporter Server
Logging in
The Front Page Panels
Channels, Portals and Folders
The Command Bar
Managing Channels
Starting the Report Designer
Designing Reports
Tables
Columns
Sorting the output data
Preview
Snapshot saving
Definition Saving
The tables within the database
Lookups
Breaks
Functions
Properties
Parameters
The SQL Tab
Custom Call
Agenda - Day 2
Charts
Lightweight Chart Properties
Crosstabs
Cubes
Presentations
Creating a Freeform report
Adding text
Adding charts
Adding images
Saving and running Freeform Reports
Data Universes
Creating a new Universe
Adding a filter
Adding a join
Removing items
Saving a Data Universe
Easy Reporter
Creating, running and saving an EasyReport
Purpose of HTML forms
Creating Parameterized forms
User Interaction
Scheduling Reports
Who will benefit from this course
Technical personnel who will use Netcool/Reporter version 2.0 to design and generate reporting information in a variety of formats sourced from Netcool/OMNIbus alerts data.
Required skills/knowledge
Completion of the IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus 7.0 Administration and Configuration course is mandatory.
Students should understand UNIX and possess an understanding of databases and SQL.
An appreciation of the Netcool ObjectServer alerts.status events and other tables is desirable.
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