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Dynamic Reports
This chapter describes how to use the EPICenter Reports capability for:
• Viewing predefined Network Summary Reports from the Home EPICenter page
• Viewing predefined EPICenter status reports from the Dynamic Reports
• Creating new reports by writing Tcl scripts
Overview of EPICenter Reports
The EPICenter software provides several sets of HTML-based reports that provide information about
the devices managed by the EPICenter server. There are two types of these reports:
• A Network Summary Report, available on the main EPICenter “Home” page, displayed when you
first log in through the EPICenter client.
• EPICenter Dynamic Reports, available separately from the main EPICenter client, or as an applet
accessed from the client.
The Network Summary Report provides summary statistics about the status of the devices being
managed by the EPICenter server. This report can also be accessed from the Dynamic Reports Main
page.
EPICenter Dynamic Reports are a separate feature from the main EPICenter user interface. If you use a
browser-based client, the reports can be accessed directly from the initial EPICenter Start-up page
without logging in to the Java client interface. The Reports module can also be accessed from the
EPICenter Navigation toolbar.
The EPICenter dynamic reports are HTML pages that do not require Java capability, and thus can be
accessed from browsers that do not have the ability to run the full EPICenter user interface. This means
reports can be loaded quickly, even over a dial-up connection, and it also provides the ability to print
the reports.
EPICenter’s HTML reports are always displayed in a browser window, even if you are running the
stand-alone client. See “Browser Requirements for Reports” on page 49 in Chapter 2 for supported
browsers.