Using R‑Cloud reports

R‑Cloud reports provide you with a visual presentation of data protection environment resources within the currently selected protection set. This comprehensive and precise presentation allows you to have an optimum view for analyzing data so that you can make the best decisions when it comes to protecting your data. Report data can be presented as a table or as a chart.

After you get familiar with the reports as described in Getting started with reporting, you can continue as follows:

• View reports. For details, see Viewing reports.

• Generate reports. For details, see Generating reports.

• Schedule reports. For details, see Scheduling reports.

   Note  When scheduling the reports, you can also choose to send them by email.

• Export and import reports. For details, see Exporting and importing reports.

Getting started with reporting

You can take advantage of predefined reports or create additional reports to better understand your data protection environment, identify potential problems, and improve performance.

For a list of predefined reports, see Predefined reports. For instructions on how to create reports, see Creating reports.

Predefined reports

Predefined reports, represented by the icon, provide you with information on the key aspects of your data protection environment, such as the size of disks and the total size of protected instance data. These reports cannot be edited or deleted.

Name	Description
backup-tasks-for-last-24-hours	List of backup tasks for the last 24 hours.
potential-consumptiona	Collection of potential consumption within the protection set.
protected-data-on-targets-per-vm	Amount of protected data on targets for each protected instance.
protected-vm-disk-capacity-per-policy	Amount of protected instance disk capacity for each policy.
total-vm-disk-capacity-trend	Total amount of instance disk capacity through time.
transferred-data-per-vm-for-previous-month	Amount of transferred data for each protected instance (per backup tier) for the previous month.
unprotected-vms	List of unprotected instances.
vm-compliance-status	List of instances, their compliance statuses, assigned policies, and the corresponding policy tiers.
vm-protected-data-on-targets-per-policy	Amount of protected instance data on targets for each policy.
vm-protected-data-on-targets-per-storage-class	Amount of protected instance data on targets for each storage class.
vm-total-protected-data-on-targets-trend	Total amount of protected instance data on targets through time.

^a The Google Cloud application data is not included in the collection of potential consumption.

Creating reports

If none of the predefined reports meets your reporting requirements, you can create a new report and tailor it to your needs.

Depending on whether you want to create a new report from scratch or edit an existing report and save it as a new report, do the following:

I want to...	Procedure
Create a new report from scratch.	Click  New. The New Report dialog box opens. Enter a report name and, optionally, its description. Select the type of report (a table or a chart). Select the aggregation value that you want to use to perform a calculation on a set of collected data. Specify the time range for the report. The Time Range drop-down menu allows you to: Select one of the predefined time ranges. Define a custom from–to time range. Click Custom to define the custom time range using a date and time picker. Distribute the report tags for the collected data that you want to include in your report between x-axis and y-axis to determine how the collected data will be presented in the report.  Important  When distributing the report tags, keep in mind that some report tags are not compatible with each other and are, therefore, grayed out after you add a specific report tag to the x-axis or y-axis tags. Click Save.
Edit an existing report and save it as a new report.	From the list of reports, select the one that you want to edit and save as a new report, and then click  Edit. The Preview Report dialog box opens. Enter a new name for the report, and then make the required modifications. Click Save as to save the edited report as a new report or Save to save the changes to the existing report.

Viewing reports

You can view the reports on the current state of your data protection environment or the saved report versions that were generated either manually or automatically.

Limitation

You cannot preview the potential-consumption predefined report.

I want to...	Procedure
View a report on the current state of my data protection environment.	From the list of reports, select the preferred report, and click  Preview.
View a saved report version.	From the list of reports, select the preferred report. In the Detail view that appears at the bottom of the screen, select the preferred report version, and then click  View. For instructions on how to generate report versions manually or automatically, see Generating reports or Scheduling reports.

In the dialog box that opens, besides viewing the report data, you can also download and export the report in the PDF, PNG, or CSV format. To do so, click  Download, and then select one of the available formats.

Generating reports

When you generate a report, you save a copy of the current version of the selected report (a report version) for future reference.

Consideration

In a protection set with a large number of sources, generating the potential-consumption predefined report may take a while.

Procedure

1. From the list of reports, select the one that you want to generate.

    Note  If none of the available reports meets your reporting requirements, you can create a new report. For details, see Creating reports.

2. In the Detail view that appears at the bottom of the screen, click  Generate. The Generate Report Version dialog box opens.

3. Optional. Enter a description for the report version.

4. Click Generate.

The generated report version is added to the list of report versions in the Detail view that appears at the bottom of the screen when you select a corresponding report.

You can later do the following:

• View the saved report versions. For details, see Viewing reports.
• Delete the saved report versions that you do not need anymore. To do so, select the preferred report version, and then click  Delete.

Scheduling reports

You can use scheduling to generate report versions automatically at a particular time each day, week, or month. You can view these report versions in the web browser or schedule them by email.

Limitation

You cannot use scheduling for the potential-consumption predefined report.

Procedure

1. From the list of reports, select the one that you want to be generated on a regular basis, and then click  Scheduler. The Report Scheduler dialog box opens.

    Note  If none of the available reports meets your reporting requirements, you can create a new report. For details, see Creating reports.

2. In the Schedule date field, specify the date and the time of day when you want the report generation to begin.

3. From the Interval drop-down menu, select how often you want the report versions to be generated (daily, weekly, or monthly).

4. Use the Send switch if you want to schedule the automatic delivery of the reports to email recipients, and then do the following:

   1. From the Report format drop-down menu, select a file format for your report (PDF, PNG, or CSV).
   2. In the Email address field, enter one or more email recipients that should receive the reports. If you are entering more than one email address, make sure to press the Spacebar after entering each one.
5. Click Schedule.

You can later do the following:

• Edit scheduling options of any of the scheduled reports. To do so, select the report, click  Scheduler, make the required modification, and then click Schedule.
• Unschedule any of the reports if you do not want them to be generated automatically anymore. To do so, select the report, click  Scheduler, and then click Unschedule.

Exporting and importing reports

R‑Cloud enables you to share user-created reports among different R‑Cloud subscriptions by exporting the reports to a JSON file and then importing the reports from the JSON file.

Exporting reports

Procedure

From the list of all reports, select the one that you want to export, and then click  Export.

The selected report will be exported to a JSON file and saved to the download location on your system.

Importing reports

Procedure

1. Click  Import. The Import Report dialog box opens.
2. Browse your file system for a report that you want to import.

3. Enter a name for the report and, optionally, its description.

    Note  If the JSON file name and description are already defined in the file itself, the Name and Description fields will be populated automatically. You can, however, use another name and description.

4. Click Import.

A new report will be added to the list of the reports.