About Reporting in Essentials
Applies To: System Center Essentials 2010
The System Center Essentials 2010 Reporting component must be installed for the Reporting feature to be available in the Essentials console. The System Center Essentials 2010 Reporting feature provides you with predefined reports. To view and run those reports, you have to access the Reporting Overview pane. In the Essentials console, click Reporting. This overview screen lists common reports that can help you in your daily work.
You can access additional predefined reports from other Overview windows. For example, In the Essentials console, if you select Updates, the Updates Overview pane shows links to reports that are related to Update Management.
Note
If you did not run the Discovery Wizard to discover computers or did not run the Update Management Configuration wizard to configure Update Management, you cannot run reports. In this case, the Reporting Overview pane displays a message stating that essential configuration is incomplete. You must complete the listed tasks before you can run reports.
Essentials 2010 retains reporting data for 37 days.
The Daily Health Report
The Daily Health Report is a health summary report that System Center Essentials produces automatically every day and sends through e-mail to the Essentials 2010 administrator. The Essentials 2010 administrator can then review the information conveniently while reading e-mail.
The Daily Health Report contains summary information about inventory, software, updates, monitoring data, and key actions that you have to complete.
Management Pack Reports
If you import a Management Pack that contains reports, Essentials 2010 lists those reports along the existing predefined reports. You can then run those reports as needed.
See Also
Tasks
How to Print a Report in Essentials
How to Run a Report in Essentials