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Creating custom analytics reports

Analytics reports run continuously in the background to give insight into how well your data center is operating in real time.

About this task

Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator provides several predefine analytics reports that are based on event, inventory, or metrics data that is collected from the managed resources. These are then displayed as statistics (in tabular form) or graphically as bar charts or pie charts. You can see examples of these reports on the Analytics (Analytics icon) > Predefined Analytics pages.

You can also create your own custom reports to represent data that interests you the most.

Procedure

To create a custom analytics reports, complete the following steps.

  1. Create custom alerts.

    XClarity Orchestrator generates analytics alerts based on known hardware and firmware issues. You can also create custom alerts to use in your custom reports.

  2. Create custom reports (queries).

    You can add custom graphical reports to XClarity Orchestrator by defining queries based on data that interests you the most.

  • Creating rules for custom analytics alerts
    Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator raises alerts based on known hardware and firmware issues. You can define custom alert rules to raise analytics alerts when a specific event occurs or when a specific metric is breached. Then, you can use those alerts to generate custom analytics reports (queries).
  • Creating custom reports (queries)
    You can add custom tabular and graphical reports to Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator by defining queries based on collected data, such as alerts, events, inventory, device metrics, or your custom metrics (aggregations).