Working with reports

Reports can be run directly from SSRS or within the OpsMgr console from the Reporting and Administration workspaces. Using the console to run reports should be the preferred option for most people as it adds a more user-friendly graphical layer on top of the SSRS Report Manager.

For example, clicking on the name of a report from within the Reporting workspace will present you with a Report Details pane (shown in Figure 10.39) giving you information on what the report can do and for more complicated reports, it gives details on how to actually run them.

Working with reports

Figure 10.39: Viewing details about a selected report

Having this detailed information ...

Get Getting Started with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.