Flexible reporting on storage resources

摘要

A method for providing flexible reporting for applications which utilize storage in at least one storage system comprises presenting a plurality of business views which aggregate application storage characteristics for a plurality of applications according to a reporting structure which is defined by a user, each of the business views being a hierarchical folder structure of the applications and a plurality of folders, wherein at least one folder in the hierarchical folder structure contains at least one of an application or another folder; for each of the business views, presenting the applications and folders as a plurality of nodes which are selectable by the user; and in response to a selection of one of the nodes from the plurality of business views and a report type specified by the user, generating a report based on the report type of the selected node, the report aggregating any of the application storage characteristics for the selected node according to the report type.

主权项

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a plurality of instructions for controlling a data processor to provide reporting for storage used by a plurality of applications running on a host computer, the plurality of instructions comprising:
instructions that cause the data processor to present at least first and second types of business views which aggregate application storage characteristics for a plurality of applications according to a reporting structure which is defined by a user, the first type of business view comprising a first type of hierarchical folder structure including information of the plurality of applications, and the second type of business view comprising a second type of hierarchical folder structure which is different from the first type of hierarchical folder structure, the second type of hierarchical folder structure including the information of the plurality of applications; instructions that, for each of the business views, present the applications and folders as a plurality of nodes which are selectable by the user; instructions that, in response to a selection of a first node from the first business view and a report type specified by the user, generate a report based on the report type of the first node, the report aggregating any of the application storage characteristics of applications in the first node for the first node according to the report type, the applications in the first node including a first application; and instructions that, in response to a selection of a second node from the second business view and a report type specified by the user, generate a report based on the report type of the second node, the report aggregating any of the application storage characteristics of applications in the second node for the second node according to the report type, the applications in the second node including the first application and a second application, wherein the second application is not included in the first node, wherein the application storage characteristics of the first application and the application storage characteristics of other applications in the first node are aggregated for the first node without aggregation of the application storage characteristics of the second application for the first node, and the application storage characteristics of the first application and the application storage characteristics of other applications, which includes the second application, in the second node are separately aggregated for the second node.