[INUG-Users] Any good tool instead of reporter?

Fri Jan 25 09:29:23 EST 2008

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Jason

On 1/25/08, brad.bueche at wachovia.com <brad.bueche at wachovia.com> wrote:
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> I've used IBM's BIRT (Business Intelligence Reporting Tool) here and
> have found it flexible and easy to use/deploy.
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> Also, it's free!!
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> You can also roll your own in PHP.   If you are going to do canned
> reports
> this is very easy.  Creating a front by which to query takes a little
> longer.
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> I have set up a front end that allows users to query any field (or set
> of
> fields) for any value (or set of values)  using any valid oracle
> operator
> (including regex, and IN, NULL, all case independent --- except regex)
> and
> this then generates a table in html that can be copied and pasted right
> into excel with no changes.  It also does counts (with drilldown),
> handles
> class conversions (for english names) , and displays and allows
> searching
> of the journal fields as well.  And I can put in the frigging partition
> (!) so my reports are a heck of a lot faster (I also can queue records
> so
> I'm not sending them to the brower 1 at a time).  Query time to the db
> is
> displayed. Render time is displayed. And you can hit either our
> production
> data or test data by choosing the target db from a drop down.  And you
> can
> sort your drill down top level reports by count (if you want)! (Reporter
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> cant). It also has canned report options with sql that duplicates all
> the
> webtop entity filters.  So customer can get reports for the webtop
> buckets
> that they are working  (all the way back to 1/1/2007) and see who closed
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> what and when, and who ack'd what and when.
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> Its actually my fist web app/page/anything.   PHP and HTML have to be
> the
> most well documented technologies on the net. (doh!) So dont think you
> cant do it! (Admittedly, I'm currently on version 61of this app now!)
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> The total code was up to about 15k lines but I've cut it back to about
> 3k
> now as I have learned more. In the begining, I had no concept of
> generating anything dynamically.  Eventually, I'm going to have the
> entire
> thing generated dynamically by just pointing to a db then letting the
> user
> create the query interface they want.  It will however be geared toward
> netcool archives.  (And of course that means I still have to create user
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> logins, work with a db for user data, start using sessions, etc
> ...........as soon as I have time to learn all that stuff).
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> Additionally, I've already started incorporating flex so that I can do
> charting as well.  And I'll probably eventually re-do the whole front
> end
> in flex/flash.  Flash is soooooooooo much better than java on the client
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> side.   Nice, small, very fast, and adobe provides the code to check and
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> see if the user has the correct version of flash and if not downloads it
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> for them.   (For those of you sick and tired of troubleshooting java
> runtime configuration issues on the client side this is a dream come
> true!).  Did I say its fast? Flash actually incorporates a little web
> engine so your server is on the client. No need for ajax. Its RIA from
> the
> get go. Responsive! Drag and drop, stateful, lots of security built in,
> etc.  I'm setting up the engine to read xml so that, really, it can
> chart
> any data that meets the format. But it will be geared toward doing event
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> reporting for command centers.  Yes, xml is larger than binary but this
> is
> internal on 100mb connections.  I'm watching the amf3 and blazeds stuff
> though. I dont think they will be as open for input though..........vs.
> just saying make your data look like this xml and the charts will work.
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> $750 for Crystal reports may get you there faster though!!  ;)
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> You might Google "Oracle reporting" and see what you get.
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> I have looked at the Oracle Business Intelligence product, which is a
> reporting system from Oracle.  You also might look at Crystal Reports
> from Business Objects.  There might even be a way to use Windows tools
> against a remote Oracle server via ODBC driver.
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> I've found that Reporter stacks up fairly well against these other
> products if you just look at features, and these other products are not
> much different in price.
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> If you have some flexibility, you MIGHT consider switch Reporter from
> Oracle to Microsoft SQL Server, and then you can use some of the
> Microsoft reporting tools.  But the last time I tried to use the MS SQL
> reporter gateway it did not work very well.
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> GLH
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> [mailto:users-bounces at netcoolusers.org] On Behalf Of olga NN
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 2:13 PM
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> Good ideaThank you .But I am looking for GUI interface against ORACLE
> -alarms are stored in ORACLE database,i need to build graphs
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> --- Jason Shamroski <jason.shamroski at gulfsoft.com>
> wrote:
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> > I've used InfoVista in the past for device performance reporting. It's
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> > expensive - typically for larger enterprises, but it's nice. Very
> > customizable reports, provided you know what you want.
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> > jason
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> > On 1/24/08, olga NN <al3457 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > > All,
> > > I am looking for a good tool to change
> > Reporter,can
> > > you recommend something?
> > > Thank you in advance
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