Best Practices

The following are best practices from this chapter:

• Use scheduled reports to automatically distribute operational reports to administrators, application owners, managers, and executives.

• Use the scheduled Windows file share distribution to post reports to directories that link to web pages. Use the Overwrite option to have the web pages update automatically.

• Always generate reports in the format and time period ad hoc first, and then schedule the report. This ensures that the reports are targeted at the correct objects, return the appropriate data, and are formatted as expected.

• Locate objects in the Monitoring space of the Operations Console, and then select the reports to generate from there. This ensures that the correct ...

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