Results step (Create Report Wizard)

(for presentation on screen only)

This step shows the presentation of the report. Depending on the settings you made in the previous steps, the presentation may comprise one or more tables, pie diagrams, and/or line diagrams.

For presentation, saving and printing presentation data, the Inventory Manager internally uses third-party libraries containing fonts to present data in a certain manner. By default, these libraries try to use the "Arial" font for saving and printing data. The required libraries are expected to be installed on your local system where the browser is started. Gen- erally, you can assume that such a font library is available on your sys- tem. However, this cannot be guaranteed for all systems where Server- View Operations Manager is installed or where the browser is started. This especially applies to Linux systems.

Therefore, it might be necessary in some cases that you provide such a font for use in Inventory Manager by using theLoad fontbutton.

Explicitly providing a font file is normally required only when the following warning occurred:

Font does not contain all symbols necessary for displaying pre- sentation. You may see wrong or missing symbols instead of meaningful characters. Please load a font that contains all required symbols.

Usually, this happens only with Japanese characters.

You can bypass this problem by loading an additional font manually: 1. Find an appropriate font (file typettforttc).

l On Windows systems, fonts are located in%windir%\Fonts l On Linux systems, font files may be located, for example, in

/var/fonts. Please search the Internet for details about installing fonts under the various Linux systems.

For European languages, the font should contain extended Latin mapping, digits and special symbols. To support Japanese lan- guage correctly, the font should contain both mapping sets of Jap- anese characters.Normally, thefontfolders on your system con- tain a variety of font files, but not all of them meet the

requirements.

If you cannot see font files in your browser dialog (although shown by the file explorer in the file system), your browser might be miss- ing the necessary access rights for this directory. In this case, please copy the relevant font files into a directory that can be accessed by your browser and try again.

If you cannot find an appropriate font in the local font folders then please search the Internet for such a font and download the fonts to your system. For Linux systems, there are some rpm packages that contain helpful font files:ipam.ttf,VL-PGothic-Regular.ttf,

VL-Gothic-Regular.ttf.

2. Select the appropriate fonts and copy them to your system.

For selecting and installing the correct fonts and checking them for all required symbols, you have the option to either load the fonts one by one, or check the corresponding font by using special programs that show font mapping. Such programs are available for download in the Internet.

3. ClickLoad fontto load the fonts from the system where your browser has been started into Inventory Manager (see below).

Report presentation as a table

A table lists all attributes of a report definition for all servers that have been been assigned in theAssign Serversstep.

Figure 20: Report presentation (table) Report presentation as a pie diagram

A pie diagram visualizes the percentage value of one attribute of a report def- inition that has been selected in theChoose Report Definitionstep. Depending on your settings made in theGraphical Formatsstep, the dia- gram may show percentage values of all assigned servers or of only one of them.

The default maximum number of sections displayed in a pie diagram is restricted to 10. Therefore, possibly not all of the original sectors may displayed in the diagram: The 10 biggest shares are each displayed in a separate sector. The aggregate values of the remaining sectors are shown in theOtherssector. You can use thePresentation Settings

tab to increase the number of displayed sectors (see"Settings for reports" on page 95).

Figure 21: Report presentation (pie diagram) Report presentation as a line diagram

A line diagram visualizes one attribute of a report definition that has been selected in theChoose Report Definitionstep. Depending on your settings made in theGraphical Formatsstep, the diagram may show a line for each assigned servers or for only one of them.

Figure 22: Report presentation (line diagram) Load font

Opens a dialog that allows you to select the font file containing the appro- priate fonts and to load the file into the Inventory Manager. As the font is saved automatically in the database, it is sufficient to load the fonts to your system only once. As long as you do not unload or change the font file, it is used for presentation, saving and printing.

Save as ...

Opens a dialog to specify the location the file should be stored, the name of the file and the format.

After saving, the file can be stored again in a different format or with a dif- ferent location or name.

Print

Opens a dialog that allows you specify the printer and the printing prop- erties and to start printing the diagram. In case of a line diagram, hidden lines are not printed.

In the case of a pie or line diagram, the following functions are avail- able via the context menu:

Properties ...

Opens a dialog box with the tabsTitle,Plots, andOtherallowing you to modify the way how titles, lines, background, etc. are displayed in the related diagram.

Copy

Copies the related diagram to the clipboard, from which it may be pasted into other applications like image editors etc..

Save as ...

Opens a dialog to specify the location the file should be stored, the name of the file and the format.

After saving, the file can be stored again in a different format or with a dif- ferent location or name.

Print ...

Opens a dialog that allows you specify the printer and the printing prop- erties and to start printing the diagram. In case of a a line diagram, hid- den lines are not printed.

Zoom in / Zoom out

Enabled only for line diagrams.Zooms in / out of the diagram. You have the option of zooming either along the x-axis (Domain Axis) or along the y-axis (Range Axis), or along both axes simultaneously (Both Axes). This option is enabled only for line diagrams.

Auto Range

Enabled only for line diagrams. Resets the scale of the diagram to its ini- tial values. You have the option of resetting the scale either of the x-axis (Domain Axis) or the y-axis (Range Axis), or of both axes simul- taneously (Both Axes).

Hide Line

Enabled only for line diagrams and then only if a line is currently select- ed. Hides the selected line.

Change color

Opens a guided dialog allowing you to change the color of the selected line. This option is enabled only for line diagrams and then only if a line is currently selected.