Alcatel VitalSuite RELEASE 10.3 SP1 User manual

Alcatel-Lucent VitalSuite Advanced Reporting Tool
RELEASE 10.3 SP1
WithVitalSuitereportingsoftware,
administratorsnolongerneedto
exportlestocomplexandexpensive
commercialreportingpackages.The
exibleformattingpowerofthe
softwareletsyoueasilytransform
performancedatatodynamic,custom
reportssoyoucanquicklydetermine
thestatusofyournetworkinfrastruc-
tureandapplications.Itoptimizesthe
reportcapabilitiesofyourVitalSuite
PerformanceManagementsoftwareto
increaseresourceefciencyandstaff
productivity.
VitalSuitePerformanceManagement
software,themarket-leadingmanage-
menttool,provideson-demandaccess
tocriticalnetworkandapplication
performanceinformationthatis
necessarytopreemptproblems,
optimizeresourcesandplanfor
maximumreturnonyournetwork
investment(ROI).Theadvanced
reportingsoftwareworkswithyour
VitalSuitesystemtoprovidethe
centralizedreportingcapabilities
youneedtoachieveend-to-end
visibility—clearlyandrapidly—
intoyourgeographicallydispersed,
multi-vendorinfrastructure.
Features
• Fullyintegratedreportingtool–pro-
videsaccesstoallVitalSuitePerfor-
manceManagementsoftwaredata
sets,calculations,multi-leveldomain
andgroupdenitions;automatically
discoversnewcollectordata
• Powerfulcustomreportingtool
–supportsawidevarietyofchart
typeswithrobustcataloging,
viewing,exportingandscheduling
options
• 100%webbasedreportadministra-
tionpackage–providesreportsthat
canbeprivateorpublishedacross
yourorganization
• Multi-platformsupport–supports
bothMicrosoft®Windows®andSun®
Solaris®operatingsystems
• Easytouse–Out-of-the-boxfunction-
alityviaawizardbasedstructureand
step-by-stepoperatingprocedures
Figure 1. VitalART within VitalSuite
VitalSuite
VitalFLOW VitalRealtime
VitalApps
VitalART
VitalNET
Alcatel-Lucent VitalSuite™Advanced Reporting software is a comprehensive Web-based tool that enables
you to generate custom presentation-quality reports and graphs by extracting monitored data from your
VitalSuite Network and Application Performance Management software products.

Alcatel-Lucent VitalSuite Advanced Reporting Tool | Release 10.3 | Data Sheet2
• IntegratedwithVitalSuite–seamless
integrationwithkeyVitalSuitecom-
ponents,allowingyoutocongurea
completeperformancemanagement
solutiontomeetyourindividualneeds:
¬ VitalNet–NetworkPerformance
Managementcomponent
¬ VitalRealtime–advancedthreshold/
alarmcomponent,runscoresident
withVitalNet
¬ VitalFlow–Advancedcollectionand
analysisofNetowrecordsdirectly
fromow-enablednetworkrouters
¬ VitalApps–ApplicationPerformance
MonitoringsystemviaAgents
Benefits
• Increasesstaffproductivitybyshort-
eninganalysistime,allowingstaffto
focusonothervalueaddedactivities
• Optimizesandconsolidatesnetwork
resourceswithnoadditionalITover-
head
• Facilitatesinformed,performance-
basednetworkinvestmentdecisions
• Helpstoproactivelypreventservice
problems;improvescustomersatis-
faction
• Helpsverifyservicequalityandcapacity
utilizationataglance
Operations and specifications
VitalSuiteAdvancedReportingsoftware
supportsawidevarietyofcharttypes
andreportingoptionstographically
depictonlytheactionabledatayou
need.Usethesoftwaretooptimize
resources,proactivelypreemptservice
problems,performatrendanalysisand
makeinformednetworkinvestment
decisions.
TheuniqueexibilityoftheVitalSuite
softwareallowsyouthefreedomto
chooseyourownmetrics,custom
counts,reportdesigns,reporttype,
reportingperiodandreportoutputs,
providingatrulyversatile,easytouse
andcustomizedpresentationsystem
forperformancedata.Accesstothe
detailedinformationcanallowusers
toanalyzethedataanddeterminethe
rootcauseofnetworkandapplication
performanceproblemsataglance.
Regressionanalysisprovidesatrendof
whathashappenedandthenbasedon
thisdatamakesafairapproximation
ofwhatcanbeexpectedinthefuture.
Thesoftwareincludespercentile
reporting,thecapabilitytoplotmultiple
resourcesonasinglegraph,andreport-
ingofbothapplicationandnetwork
dataonasinglereport.Itprovidesthe
exibilityofdeningreportsyourway
withyourcorporatelogo,data,format
andtiminginformation.
Figure 3. Example of a section in table
format with two subsections – one graph
and one chart
Ease of use
• AutomaticallydeterminesVitalSuite
PerformanceManagementSoftware
datasetsandschema
• IncorporatesVitalSuitePerformance
ManagementSoftwaresystemmulti-
leveldomains,groupsanduser
permissions
• SimpliesreportingacrossVitalSuite
software’sdistributedarchitecture
• Presentssingleviewofperiodicand
congurationinformation
• Allowsforconditionalchart
generation
Figure 4. Easy authoring, management and
control of reports
Figure 2. Examples of wizard-based report generation system

Alcatel-Lucent VitalSuite Advanced Reporting Tool | Release 10.3 | Data Sheet 3
• Enablesselectionofperiodicdata
aggregationlevelatreportexecution
—noneedtoduplicatereportsfor
hourly/daily/weekly/monthlydata
• Allowsdenition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eldstousewithin
thereport
¬ Denetheirownelds
¬ Overridedisplayedeldnames
andwidthofanyeld
¬ Displayaggregateddatausing
functions:average,minimum,
maximum,rst,last,total
andcount
¬ Previewselections
• Userscanspecify:
¬ Upto10eldgroupings
¬ Ascending/Descendingoptions
¬ Reportoutputon“TopNRecords”
¬ Pagebreakhandling
¬ Sorting—upto10elds
¬ Customeldsanddisplayorder
oftheelds
¬ 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”elds—elds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eld—And/Or—
custom
¬ Alogo—tailorfontstylesandcolors
¬ Pageorientationandpagesize
• Graphdenitions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denedviaMIBWorks
orDataWorks
• Automaticallyidenties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

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• Reportsareorganizedbasedon
VitalSuitePerformanceManage-
mentsoftwaremulti-leveldomain
denitionsandareprivateunless
publishedtoothersinthedomain
• Allows“ViewOnly”permissions
• Customizabledisplayformatwithout
re-runningthereport
• Searchbasedonreportname,de-
nitionname,category,orowner
• Reportdenitionsimport/export
function
Client/administrator interface
requirements
• MicrosoftInternetExplorer®7.0or8.0
System requirements
• Microsoft®Windows®2003Server/
MSSQLServer2005
• Windows200864-bitR2/MSSQL
Server200864-bit
• Solaris10/Oracle10
VitalSuite Performance
Management software portfolio
Optimize network, application and
business performance
Alcatel-Lucentisaprovenglobalprovider
ofmarketleadingperformancemanage-
mentsolutionsthatmaximizeprotabil-
ityandproductivityandhelpyou
leverageyourinvestmentforacom-
petitiveadvantage.Alcatel-Lucent’s
award-winningVitalSuitePerformance
Managementportfolioisusedtodayby
morethan1500enterprisesworld-wide,
includingover75%oftheFortune100.
Alcatel-Lucentleveragesinnovations
fromBellLabsandexperienceand
expertisefromAlcatel-LucentWorld-
wideServicestoprovidehighlyexible,
scalablesolutionsthatenableconverged
services,enhancetheuserexperience
andacceleratetimetorevenue.Alcatel-
Lucentpartnerswithworld-classsystem
integrators,complementaryISVsand
hardwarevendorstodeliverend-to-
endsolutionsthatreduceoperational
complexities,easeintegrationcosts
andmaximizeprotability.
VitalSuiteNetworkPerformance
Managementsoftwareprovidesthe
criticalnetworkinformationnecessary
topreemptproblems,optimizeresources
andplanformaximumreturnon
networkinvestments(ROI).Itprovides
end-to-end,web-basedvisibilityinto
geographicallydispersed,multi-vendor,
multi-technologyconvergedinfrastruc-
ture.ItenablesITmanagerstomonitor,
analyze,manageandpredictperfor-
mancefromasinglecentralizedlocation.
VitalSuiteReal-timeEventAnalysis
softwarehelpsoptimizemulti-vendor
packetdataandvoicenetworkswith
powerfulreal-timecapabilitiesthat
traditionalmanagementproducts
cannotmatch.Itofferstechnically
advancedtoolstomonitor,measure,
analyzeandvisualizeperformancedata
andimmediatelyidentifynetwork
resourcesthathaveexceededdened
networkservicelevels.
VitalSuiteApplicationPerformance
Managementsoftwaremonitorsthe
performanceofnetwork-based
applications,presentingreal-time
viewsofeachusertransactionfrom
thedesktop,acrossthenetworkor
Internet,totheservers,andbackagain.
Networkmanagersgetacomplete
pictureoftheoverallapplication
performanceacrossthenetworksince
thesoftwarecontinuouslycollectsdata
fromallongoingapplicationsactivity.
VitalSuiteFlowAnalysisprovides
directNetowdatacollectionwith
integratedowtrafcanalysisand
reportingcapabilities.VitalFlowoffers
integratedowmonitoringtohelp
identifyapplicationandnetwork
trafcbehaviorbyshowinghow
thenetworkbandwidthisused.
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