Using the Reporting Workspace in Operations Manager

System Center Operations Manager provides extensive reporting capabilities, including multiple report libraries that you can select from to customize reports for your specific requirements. Reports perform a query against the data warehouse database and return the results in an easy-to-read format.

Important

Users must be a member of the Report Operator Users role to run reports.

Reporting

Reporting in the Reporting workspace contains all reports installed with Operations Manager, as well as those reports included in management packs that you've imported.

The report library contains generic reports (for example, Availability and Configuration Changes reports). Generic reports have no specified context. The context for the report is defined in the parameter header, located at the top of the Report window. For a list of reports included with Operations Manager, review Operations Manager reports library.

Authored Reports

Authored reports are based on the existing reports from the report library. You configure a report with prepopulated parameters, and then make it available to other users.

After you run a report, select File, and select Publish to publish the report with the configured parameters to Authored Reports.

Scheduled Reports

You can schedule configured reports to run on a one-time or recurring basis.

After you run a report, select File, and select Schedule to configure the report subscription. For more information, see Scheduling Reports.

Favorite reports in Web console

In Operations Manager, you can run and view favorite reports under Web Console > My Workspace. For more information, see Favorite reports in Web console.

Next steps

• Review How to create reports in Operations Manager to learn how create reports for your operational needs.

• How to Run, Save, and Export a Report walks you through how to preview your reports, save them with specific report parameters to minimize repeated entry of information or to simplify the experience for your report users, and how to export the report to different file formats.