This document describes how to generate and view reports for assets.
The content is organized under the following sections:
Whether you need to document or present information about your assets, you can use reports to do so.
Reports provide a way for you to view, share and print information derived from the assets that are created in the CentraSite registry.
CentraSite Reports can be used to register BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) reports. Such reports can be created, for example, using the Eclipse plug-ins delivered with CentraSite. For information about installing and starting the plug-ins, refer to the section Setting up the Eclipse Plug-Ins in the document Post Installation and Additional Uninstallation Steps for CentraSite. Documentation describing how to create BIRT reports is contained in the Eclipse online help that is delivered with the plug-ins.
The data model that UDDI CentraSite uses to store the metadata of a BIRT report complies with the best practices given in the technical note entitled "Using BPEL4WS in a UDDI Registry", available on the OASIS web site at https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/uddi-spec/doc/tn/uddi-spec-tc-tn-bpel-20040725.htm.
For general information about the BIRT technology, see the description of the BIRT project in the Projects section of the Eclipse site at http://www.eclipse.org/birt/.
A report template contains instructions for gathering metadata from CentraSite Business UI or the CentraSite registry/repository for one or more assets, and formatting it into an asset-specific report. The template lets you create detailed reports for your assets containing data that you have specified. Using the Report Designer, you can also create report templates that have the exact content and presentation that you need.
CentraSite provides a variety of predefined global report templates that you can use to obtain, view and share information from your assets. You can also define custom report templates to produce detailed reports that have the specific content and format that you require.
For information on how to create report templates and upload the report templates to CentraSite, see the document Working with Reports and Report Templates in the CentraSite online documentation.
To access data and display the report on an asset, you use one of the following global report templates.
| Report Template Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Asset Changes Since Date |
This report lists all changes that have occurred on the assets of the specific organization since selected date. |
| New Assets Since Date |
This report lists all new assets that were created in the specific organization since selected date. |
| Run-time Asset Quality of Service |
This report displays the quality of service information about runtime assets. |
| Run-time Asset Usage |
This report provides details about the selected asset (or all assets) usage over the selected period. |
| Run-time Consumer Usage |
This report provides details about the usage by each consumer over the selected period. |
| Run-time Policy Errors |
This report displays policy violation errors for that particular day. |
| Run-time Services |
This report displays the summary level information about virtual services. |
| Service Details |
This report displays the details of services in CentraSite. |
| SLA Violations |
This report provides details about the SLA violations reports over the selected period. |
| SOA Maturity |
For each month in the current and previous year this report calculates the number of services available per month with the total number of usage references for those services. |
| Top Ten Consumers |
This report displays the top ten consumers in the SOA infrastructure. |
| Top Ten Services |
This report displays the top ten services in the SOA infrastructure. |
| Run-time Asset Error |
This report provides details about the runtime asset errors for that particular day. |
| Unreferenced Assets |
This report shows all assets that have no incoming relationships. |
Important:
The use of the run-time report templates is not supported if
you are using a CentraSite Community Edition license.
In general, all CentraSite users have implicit (and irrevocable) view permission on report templates. This permission enables you to generate reports from any report template that exists in the registry/repository.
However, if you are trying to generate report for a specific asset in the CentraSite, then the action is available in the asset detail's page, only if you have the following permissions:
A Modify permission on the asset (granted though either a role-based permission or an instance-level permission).
The "Use the Reports UI" permission.
In CentraSite Business UI, you can generate a report in the following ways:
From the View Report action. For procedures, see Generating Report for a Single Asset.
From the activity. For procedures, see Generating Report for a Set of Assets.
Use the following procedure to generate report for an individual asset.
To generate the report from an action menu
In CentraSite Business UI, display the asset for that you want to generate a report. If you need procedures for this step, see the section Viewing Details for an Asset.
On the asset details page, click the (
) icon. This shows the list of report templates that are
applicable for the asset.
Choose the report template that you want to use for report generation.
Choose the report output format ("HTML", "PDF").
Click View to generate a report. At the prompt, enter the value for the required parameters.
Note:
If at any time you wish to abandon all your changes and return
to your previous screen, just click the
button.
CentraSite generates the required data-specific report for the particular asset.
Use the following procedure to generate report for a set of assets.
To generate the report from an activity menu
In CentraSite Business UI, choose the Global Reports activity.
On the Generate a Report page, choose the report template that you want to use for report generation.
Choose the report output format ("HTML", "PDF").
Click View to generate the report. At the prompt, enter the value for the required parameters.
Note:
If at any time you wish to abandon all your changes and return
to your previous screen, just click the
button.
CentraSite generates the required data-specific report for the assets from CentraSite registry/repository.
