SolarWinds UDT - Creating a Business Hours Report

SolarWinds Report Writer is a component available to all SolarWinds products. Using
SolarWinds Report Writer with Orion Report Scheduler, you can create reports that
you can then distribute as regularly scheduled emails. The following sections create
and schedule for email delivery an example report of network node availability and
response time during peak business hours.
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Creating a Business Hours Report
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Scheduling and Emailing a Report
Creating a Business Hours Report
The following procedure creates a monthly report of network node availability and
response time during peak business hours, defined as between 7:00 AM and 7:00
PM.
1.
Click Start > All Programs > SolarWinds > Alerting, Reporting, and Mapping >
Report Writer.
2.
In the left pane, click Historical Response Time Reports > Response Time - Last
Month.
3. On the General tab, edit the Report Group, Report Title, and Description as
appropriate.
4.
On the Select Fields tab, click Browse (...), and then click Add a new field.
5.
In the new field, click the Field asterisk (*), and then select Network Nodes >
Historical Response Time and Availability > Availability.
6.
On the Filter Results tab, click Browse (...), and then select Add a new
elementary condition.
7.
In the new field, click the first asterisk (*), and then select Date/Time (Response
Time Filtering Only) > Time of Day (24 hour format).
8.
Click is equal to, and then select greater or equal.
9.
Click the second asterisk (*), and then enter the start time of your peak
business hours in 24-hour hh:mm format (e.g. 07:00).
10.
Click Browse (...), and then select Add a new elementary condition.
11.
Click the first asterisk (*), and then select Date/Time (Response Time Filtering
Only) > Time of Day (24 hour format).
12.
Click is equal to, and then select less.
13.
Click the second asterisk (*), and then enter the end time of your peak business
hours in 24-hour hh:mm format (e.g. 19:00).
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