Using HYCU for Azure reports

HYCU for Azure reports provide you with a visual presentation of data protection environment resources within the currently selected protection set. This comprehensive and precise presentation allows you to have an optimum view for analyzing data so that you can make the best decisions when it comes to protecting your data. Report data can be presented as a table or as a chart.

i Important Reports reflect the state of your data protection environment with an up to 10 minute latency period.

After you get familiar with reports as described in “Getting started with reporting”, you can continue as follows:

View reports. For details, see “Viewing reports”.
Generate reports. For details, see “Generating reports”.
Schedule reports. For details, see “Scheduling reports”.

n Note When scheduling the reports, you can also choose to send them by email.
Export and import reports. For details, see “Exporting and importing reports”.

t Tip To minimize the Details section, click Minimize or press Spacebar. To return it to its original size, click Maximize or press Spacebar.

Getting started with reporting

You can take advantage of predefined reports or create additional reports to better understand your data protection environment, identify potential problems, and improve performance.

For a list of predefined reports, see “Predefined reports”. For instructions on how to create reports, see “Creating reports”.

Predefined reports

Predefined reports, represented by the  icon, provide you with information on the key aspects of your data protection environment, such as the total size of virtual machine backup data and the size of virtual machine disks. These reports cannot be edited or deleted.

Name	Description
Protected data on targets – per access tier	Amount of protected data on targets per access tier.
Protected data on targets – per policy	Amount of protected data on targets per policy.
Protected data on targets – per virtual machine	Amount of protected data on targets per virtual machine.
Protected virtual machine disk capacity – per policy	Amount of protected virtual machine disk capacity per policy.
Total protected data on targets (trend)	Total amount of protected data on targets through time.
Total virtual machine disk capacity (trend)	Total amount of virtual machine disk capacity through time.
Virtual machine compliance status	List of virtual machines, their compliance statuses, assigned policies, and the corresponding policy tiers.

Creating reports

If none of the predefined reports meets your reporting requirements, you can create a new report and tailor it to your needs.

Depending on whether you want to create a new report from scratch or edit an existing report and save it as a new report, do the following:

I want to...	Procedure
Create a new report from scratch.	Click  New. The Report Configuration dialog box opens. Enter a report name and, optionally, its description. Select the type of report (a table or a chart). Specify the time range for the report. Select the aggregation value that you want to use to perform a calculation on a set of collected data. Distribute the report tags for the collected data that you want to include in your report between x-axis and y-axis to determine how the collected data will be presented in the report. Click Save.
Edit an existing report and save it as a new report.	From the list of reports, select the one that you want to edit and save as a new report, and then click  Edit. The Report Configuration dialog box opens. Enter a new name for the report, and then make the required modifications. Click Save as.

I want to...

Procedure

Create a new report from scratch.

Click  New. The Report Configuration dialog box opens.
Enter a report name and, optionally, its description.
Select the type of report (a table or a chart).
Specify the time range for the report.
Select the aggregation value that you want to use to perform a calculation on a set of collected data.
Distribute the report tags for the collected data that you want to include in your report between x-axis and y-axis to determine how the collected data will be presented in the report.
Click Save.

Edit an existing report and save it as a new report.

From the list of reports, select the one that you want to edit and save as a new report, and then click  Edit. The Report Configuration dialog box opens.
Enter a new name for the report, and then make the required modifications.
Click Save as.

Viewing reports

You can view the reports on the current state of your data protection environment or the saved reports that were generated either manually or automatically.

I want to...	Procedure
View a report on the current state of my data protection environment.	From the list of reports, select the desired report, and then double-click it or click Preview.
View a saved report.	From the list of reports, select the desired report. In the Details section that appears at the bottom of the screen, select the desired report version, and then double-click it or click View. For instructions on how to generate reports manually or automatically, see “Generating reports” or “Scheduling reports”.

I want to...

Procedure

View a report on the current state of my data protection environment.

From the list of reports, select the desired report, and then double-click it or click Preview.

View a saved report.

From the list of reports, select the desired report.
In the Details section that appears at the bottom of the screen, select the desired report version, and then double-click it or click View.

For instructions on how to generate reports manually or automatically, see “Generating reports” or “Scheduling reports”.

In the dialog box that opens, besides viewing the report data, you can also do the following:

Switch between the reports.
Download and export the report in the PDF, PNG, or CSV format. To do so, click Download, and then select one of the available formats.
If you view a report on the current state of the data protection environment, you can save this version of the report by clicking Generate. The saved report is added to the list of report versions.

Generating reports

When you generate a report, you are saving a copy of the current version of the selected report (a report version) for future reference.

Procedure

From the list of reports, select the one that you want to generate.

n Note If none of the available reports meets your reporting requirements, you can create a new report. For details, see “Creating reports”.
In the Details section that appears at the bottom of the screen, click Generate. The Generate Report Version dialog box opens.
Optional. Enter a description for the report version.
Click Generate.

t Tip You can save a version of the selected report also by clicking Preview followed by Generate.

The generated report version is added to the list of report versions in the Details section that appears at the bottom of the screen when you select a corresponding report.

You can later do the following:

View the saved reports. For details, see “Viewing reports”.
Delete the saved reports that you do not need anymore. To do so, select the desired report version, and then click  Delete.

Scheduling reports

You can use scheduling to generate reports automatically at a particular time each day, week, or month. You can view these reports in the web browser or schedule them to be delivered by email.

Procedure

From the list of reports, select the one that you want to be generated on a regular basis, and then click Scheduler. The Report Scheduler dialog box opens.

n Note If none of the available reports meets your reporting requirements, you can create a new report. For details, see “Creating reports”.
In the Schedule date field, specify the date and the time of the day when you want the report generation to begin.
From the Interval drop-down menu, select how often you want the reports to be generated (daily, weekly, or monthly).
Use the Send switch if you want to schedule the automatic delivery of the reports to email recipients, and then do the following:
1. From the Report format drop-down menu, select a file format for your report (PDF, PNG, or CSV).
2. In the Email address field, enter one or more email recipients that should receive the reports. If you are entering more than one email address, make sure to press the Spacebar after entering each one.
Click Schedule.

t Tip The reports that are generated automatically are marked by  in the Scheduled column of the Reports panel and have Auto-generated in their description.

You can later do the following:

Edit scheduling options of any of the scheduled reports. To do so, select the report, click Scheduler, make the required modification, and then click Schedule.
Unschedule any of the reports if you do not want them to be generated automatically anymore. To do so, select the report, click Scheduler, and then click Unschedule.

Exporting and importing reports

HYCU for Azure enables you to share reports among different HYCU for Azure subscriptions by exporting the reports to a JSON file and then importing the reports from the JSON file.

Exporting reports

Procedure

From the list of all reports, select the one that you want to export, and then click Export.

The selected report will be exported to a JSON file and saved to the download location on your system.

Importing reports

Procedure

Click Import. The Import Report dialog box opens.
Browse your file system for the report that you want to import.
Enter a name for the report and, optionally, its description.

n Note If the JSON file name and description are already defined in the file itself, the Name and Description fields will be populated automatically. You can, however, use another name and description.
Click Import.

A new report will be added to the list of reports.