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Creating and managing reports
With reports, you can view the performance of your virtualized environment. You can view statistics on availability, response time, traffic, throughput.
Before you begin
- Your servers, clusters, and applications must be running to display data in the charts.
By default, runtime operations reports use Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) charts. Microsoft Internet Explorer does not have an SVG viewer installed by default. You can install the SVG viewer plug-in or update the reports preferences to display JPEG images. To update the reports preferences, click . Edit the Default chart format field.
About this task
Reports are charts that show runtime data. You can use this data to monitor your environment, and take correctional actions when necessary.
You can view reports which display live data, or you can use charts displaying historic data logged over a period of days, weeks, months, years. In order to use historic charting, configure and enable the visualization data service. For more information, read about configuring the visualization data service. For historic charting, use the sliding bar to adjust the percentage of time to view. You can focus on a specific time interval and include more data in the chart.

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What to do next
If your operational alerts are taking a long time to load, you can configure custom properties to change how the alerts are loaded while the cache initializes.
You can configure custom properties to specify the maximum number of data sets to display, or to limit what cell information is displayed.