Creating Monitoring Policy Data Sets

Use Monitoring Policy data sets to collect the information you use to build charts, tables, and dynamic inputs.

Before You Begin

• Create a data set using Monitoring Policy in the CommCell Console.

• To create an embedded data set, your CommCell user account requires a role with the following permissions and associations:

  • Add Report permission and an association with the CommCell entity

  • Query Datasource permission and an association with the Data Source entity that you will use

For more information on users, permissions, and associations, see User Administration and Security - Overview.

Procedure

1. On Web Console, click Reports.

   The Reports page appears.

2. Create a new report, or open an existing report:

   • To create a new report, from the navigation pane, click Configuration > Reports and click New Report.

     

   • To open an existing report and add a new data set to it, from the navigation pane, click Configuration > Reports, and next to the Report Name under Actions, click Edit.

     

3. On the Report Builder page, in the Report Name box, type a name for the report, and in the Description box, type a short description of the report.

4. On the Data Sets tab, click Add .

5. In the Add Data Set dialog box, on the Query tab, select Monitoring Policy.

6. In the Source Type list, select the type of data source you want to use:

   • Monitoring Policy

   • Saved Search

7. Select which monitoring policy or saved search to use for the data set:

   • If you selected Monitoring Policy, in the Policy Name list, select a monitoring policy.

     

   • If you selected Saved searches, in the Search Name list, select the name of a search.

     

8. Click Preview to review the output.

9. Click Done.

   The data set you created appears under Data Sets.

What to Do Next

• If you are creating a report:Building and Deploying Reports.

• If you are creating a dynamic input: Adding Inputs to Reports.