Tivoli Netcool/Reporter

Historical and trended reporting for Netcool/OMNIbus events and data

Reads events from the Netcool ObjectServer and writes them into any customer-supplied relational database.
Provides a comprehensive suite of pre-defined reports including executive-level Event Summaries, Fault Diagnosis and Service-Level Management reporting for internal or external service level agreements (SLAs).
Netcool/Reporter is completely Web and Java-based.

What's New in Netcool/Reporter V2.2.0?

Over 1,000 enterprise, service provider, and government organizations worldwide use IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus as a manager of managers to consolidate event management across operational silos and tools. For companies looking to extend the realtime intelligence provided by IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus, IBM Tivoli Netcool/Reporter V2.2.0 offers out-of-the-box integration with Netcool/OMNIbus, adding historical event reporting across individual silos and tools. Netcool/Reporter provides enhanced visibility across varying time periods and automated analysis of the long-term behavior and service level performance of configuration items across applications, systems, devices, and virtually any other event source.

Enhanced capabilities in V2.2.0

Enhanced globalization architecture with additional language support including Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. With extended language support, you can now generate and distribute out-of-the-box and custom reports to a broader audience in your local language helping simplify and improve cross-team communication and planning.
Enhanced GUI with improved look and greater flexibility, enabling staff to leverage a broader range of reporting options according to individual requirements.
Enhanced platform, client, and database support that now includes Red Hat Linux™ ES 4.0 (server), Windows Vista® (client), IBM DB2® V9.1, and MS SQL Server 2005 enabling greater flexibility and cost savings via a wider range of deployment options according to the needs of the business.
Enhanced Java™ support including server side IBM JRE V1.4.2 and client side Java 1.5 plugin, Sun and IBM enabling Java-based, which simplifies the deployment and use of client-server reporting throughout a distributed environment. Users can navigate quickly and easily to the appropriate task whether administering, building, or viewing reports.

Netcool/Reporter is an historical event reporting software application with a business intelligence-oriented portal that provides pages, folder and channels, several report development tools, and over 50 canned reports.

At the core of Netcool/Reporter is a Java server and set of applets and drivers to provide database connectivity, scheduling capabilities, report creation, and publishing.

Netcool/Reporter uses OBDC plus native connectivity to databases for reporting coupled with an Apache Web Server and JRun, as the servlet engine, to deliver the reports.

A Report Designer applet is provided which connects to RDBMS standard databases including Oracle, Sybase, and MS-SQL Server, and creates SQL and formatting definition files that are saved on the file system. The Report Designer is a wizard-like interface that allows the SQL query to be constructed from a tab-based approach.

A runtime engine submits the queries and formats the data returned, for display in a browser, or for output into HTML, PDF, CSV, XML, GIF, or JPEG files. In addition to the ability to create ad-hoc reports, a series of Event Summary, Fault Diagnosis, and Operational Performance reports are provided in the distribution, along with a set of Service Level Management quality reports, ready to run as soon as the IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Gateway generates data.

In addition to the canned reports described above, there is a set of sample reports built using the Freeform Report Designer tool; these reports use a combination of tables, bar charts, and pie charts. Reports can be run in real time, saved as snapshots, or output as CSV or PDF files.

A set of JSP tag libraries is provided; these tag libraries enable the construction of specialized interaction with the Netcool/Reporter server and are the basis for the two JSP tools used for executing reports via a URL.

The target audience for Netcool/Reporter is any user who needs to generate ad-hoc reports for analyzing the event data generated by Netcool/OMNIbus or who wants to publish and distribute reports to executives within the organization or to IT specialists.