Adapting Existing Report Templates

Performance Manager allows you to download and adapt BIRT report templates that contain all the information you need to create custom report templates for use with Performance Manager modules.

Note: Performance Manager reports do not support bitmap (.bmp) image file format. For proper display, images must be in JPEG, GIF, or PNG format.

To create a report based on a Performance Manager template:

In the menu, click Administration > Reports .
Click in the Actions column.
Save the template file <filename>.rptdesign to the workspace folder of your BIRT installation.
Open the downloaded template file in BIRT Report Designer.
Redesign the report as necessary. For instructions on report design, refer to BIRT Report Designer’s online help system.
To preview your report, choose View Report > As HTML from the Run menu. The browser in which you want to preview the report can be specified as follows:
- Click Window > Preferences > Web Browser, select Use external web browser and choose a browser.
- Click Window > Preferences > Report Design > Preview and check the Always use external browsers check box.
If you preview the report for the first time, the Enter Parameters dialog box opens, where you need to specify a valid session ID. To generate a session ID, execute the following URL in a web browser. http://<HOST>:<PORT>/services/sccsystem?method=logonUser&userName=<USERNAME>&plainPasswd=<PASSWORD>.

Parameter

Description

HOST

Host name or IP-address of the computer hosting Performance Manager.

PORT

Port number of the Performance Manager front-end server. Default is 19120 if you access Performance Manager through a standalone Web server, and 80 if you access Performance Manager through IIS.

USERNAME/PASSWORD

Valid credentials of a Performance Manager user.

Note: The order of the valid credentials USERNAME and PASSWORD is very important.
If at some point your edited report does not return any data, the likely cause is that the session ID has timed out (timeout is 10 minutes). Close the browser window and choose View Report > As HTML from the Run menu again. To generate a new session ID, repeat the previous step.