Managing Custom Report Templates with BIRT

Performance Manager is tightly integrated with Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) Report Designer to make it easy for you to generate reports for your monitoring data.

After downloading a copy of BIRT Report Designer, you can customize the core Performance Manager reports and add your own reports. For information about running and customizing reports, please refer to the application's Help.

For additional information on BIRT Report Designer, refer to BIRT Report Designer’s online help system. You can find further information, examples, and demonstrations for BIRT Report Designer at http://www.eclipse.org/birt. An active newsgroup (news.eclipse.org) is also available.

The software prerequisites to work with BIRT custom reports are:

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