About Information Publisher

Information Publisher, Enterprise Manager’s powerful reporting framework, makes information about your managed environment available to audiences across your enterprise. Administrators can use reports to show activity, resource utilization, and configuration of managed targets. IT managers can use reports to show availability of sets of managed systems. Business executives can view reports on availability of applications (such as corporate e-mail or other critical business applications) over a period of time.

Information Publisher is installed and ready to use with Enterprise Manager and comes with a comprehensive library of predefined report definitions, allowing you to generate reports for your managed environment with no additional setup. Information Publisher also provides you with the ability to easily create customized reports, as well as create new reports using an intuitive graphical user interface that is an integral part of the Enterprise Manager Grid Control console. These HTML-based reports can be viewed interactively, generated on a schedule, and/or sent to selected recipients via e-mail. Additionally, reports can be shared among Enterprise Manager administrators and made available to non-credentialed users via the Enterprise Manager Reporting Website

Key features:

Predefined report definitions that allow you to generate useful reports out-of-box.
Ability to customize out-of-box report definitions and create custom report definitions using the intuitive the Enterprise Manager Grid Control console.
Ability to create content-rich HTML reports based off of information stored in the Management Repository.
Ability to generate reports on a schedule, publish them to a secure website and distribute via email to selected recipients
Ability to share reports with non-Enterprise Manager administrators via the Enterprise Manager Reports Website
By taking advantage of Enterprise Manager's security model, Information Publisher provides a secure information access framework for both Enterprise Manager administrators and users outside the Enterprise Manager framework.

Types of Reports

Information Publisher provides ready-to-use report definitions, allowing you to generate fully formed reports immediately. You can also create custom report definitions to generate reports that satisfy unique information requirements.

Out-of-Box Report Definitions

Information Publisher comes with a comprehensive library of ready-to-use report definitions that allow you to generate fully-formed reports immediately without setup or configuration. For a complete list of available report definitions, click on the Reports tab in the Enterprise Manager Grid Control console to view the Report Definition page.

Custom Report Definitions

You can create custom report definitions by using Information Publisher's intuitive user interface. Create new report definitions by assembling report elements (report content building blocks), setting element parameters, and optionally defining a schedule and granting access permissions.

Report Information Sources

Information Publisher can generate reports using information extracted from the Management Repository. Database views are provided to allow easy access to data stored in the Management Repository base tables. For the complete list of available Management Repository views, refer to the Extending Enterprise Manager guide.

Generating Reports