OnCommand Insight: Business Insights (OCIBI)

Module 1: Introduction to Reporting

• OnCommand Insight (OCI) overview
• Phased approach to reporting
• Storage manager dashboard
• OCI storage automation store

Module 2: Operational Reporting

• Queries, widgets and dashboards
• Custom dashboards
• Adding dashboard widgets

Module 3: Data Warehouse

• OCI data warehouse overview
• Data warehouse database
• Data models

Module 4: Business Reporting: Chargeback

• Annotations, business entities and applications
• IBM Cognos analytics – reporting

Module 5: Business Reporting: virtual Machine Performance

• IBM Cognos analytics: controlling report contents
• Including charts in a report
• Including links

Module 6: Business Reporting: Storage Pool Capacity

• Drill through capability
• Styles
• Conditional formatting
• Report formatting

Module 7: Maintaining OnCommand Insight Reporting Capabilities

• Reporting portal
• Data warehouse admin portal
• Data warehouse documentation
• RESTful APIs

Labs:

• Accessing the data warehouse reporting portal
• Importing a report from the storage automation store
• Creating an application operation dashboard
• Creating a virtual machine operation dashboard
• Creating a storage capacity operations dashboard
• Creating a report in IBM Cognos that is centered on application chargeback
• Creating a report in IBM Cognos that is centered on virtual machine performance
• Creating a report in IBM Cognos that is centered on storage use