Alcatel-Lucent VitalSuite Advanced Reporting Tool | Release 10.3 | Data Sheet
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• Enables selection of periodic data
aggregation level at report execution
— no need to duplicate reports for
hourly/daily/weekly/monthly data
• Allows definition of hierarchical
reports by determining relationships
between data sets
• Multi-Pass Reports allow information
to have dependencies on data in
parent reports
• Supports Unicode 3.0’
Report flexibility
• Each section can contain tables,
graphs, cross-tab or a combination
• Supports a variety of tabular
formats, plus bar, area, pie and
line chart types
• Users can:
¬ Add, edit, copy, delete and
reorder sections
¬ Add sub-sections within sections
¬ Name the section
¬ Pick the format (Tabular, Chart)
¬ List and pick the data set and
format of data values
¬ List and select fields to use within
the report
¬ Define their own fields
¬ Override displayed field names
and width of any field
¬ Display aggregated data using
functions: average, minimum,
maximum, first, last, total
and count
¬ Preview selections
• Users can specify:
¬ Up to 10 field groupings
¬ Ascending / Descending options
¬ Report output on “Top N Records”
¬ Page break handling
¬ Sorting — up to 10 fields
¬ Custom fields and display order
of the fields
¬ Filters for report output
¬ Report categories
¬ SQL supported expressions
¬ Report titles — free text and run
time values
¬ Customized chart fonts for
- X and Y-axis values/labels —
separate for each
- Legend labels and Chart Title
¬ Text displays to add notes
¬ Conditional styles based on a value
to highlight a datapoint — font,
font size, foreground and back-
ground color can be controlled
¬ “Hidden” fields — fields used in
generating the report that are not
displayed
¬ Special functions — max/min/avg,
count, percentile
¬ Constraints on the data that is to
be included in the report — up to
2 constraints per field — And/Or —
custom
¬ A logo — tailor font styles and colors
¬ Page orientation and page size
• Graph definitions allow you to specify:
¬ The value for the X-axis
¬ The value for each Y-axis
¬ The value for the Series
¬ Auto, manual or matching of
left and right Y axes scales
¬ Chart size and side-by-side
chart placement
¬ Multiple series — up to six —
to plot against the Y axis
Scheduled report capabilities
• Daily, weekly, monthly
• Every “x” days, weeks, months
• Based on the day of week and/or
day of the month
• Multiple selectable times of day
to run reports
• Optional schedule end date
• Email delivery
Data sources
• VitalSuite Advanced Reporting Tool
allows reports on all of the raw per-
formance statistics that are collected
and calculated by VitalSuite Net-
work and Application Performance
Management software
¬ Some examples include: Any
collector currently available in
VitalSuite Network Performance
Management software, LAN /
WAN counts, MPLS and QoS data,
95th percentile utilization data,
Key Performance Indicators, Quality
Indexes, Router measurements,
device IP addresses
¬ Normalized CDR call performance
statistics for VoIP
¬ VitalRealTime – advanced alarm
information
¬ VitalFlow – Flow records and
statistics
• Includes data defined via MIBWorks
or DataWorks
• Automatically identifies new data
sets added to VitalSuite Performance
Management software and makes the
data assessable to the user community
• Supports Coordinated Universal
Time (UTC) values and formats as
a date and/or time string
Report administration
• Catalogs existing reports and provides
history, copy, publish, export and
print functions
• Allows a variety of viewing/exporting
options including PDF, CSV, XLS (Excel),
RTF, XML, ZIP and HTML formats
• Reports page allows users to manage
and/or run existing reports
¬ Summary view shows the report
name, owner, last status and
detail, access to history
¬ “Count” view shows status details:
how many instances of the report
are scheduled, pending, running,
success, failure, cancelled
