At this point in time, you should be very familiar with how to monitor nodes in Orion NPM. In fact, I'm sure you must have noticed that there is plenty of historical data that Orion NPM saves in its database for every monitored object. Orion NPM allows you to take that data and export it into a report so that you can view its contents easily. Orion reports come in all shapes and sizes and the information that Orion reports can provide help the management and administrators with capacity planning, project management, vendor selection, and many other things.
You can run any of the pre-defined reports, which are installed with Orion NPM, on-demand within the Orion dashboard. Another thing to be discussed later is that you can schedule reports to be created and have them e-mailed to the appropriate people.
Every report available within Orion NPM can be found in the Reports view under the HOME tab in the Orion dashboard.
The Reports page view will look similar to the following...