The Orion reporting engine (Report Writer) allows you to develop quick, custom reports on the performance of your network. The Report Writer ships with several standard reports as well as a simple interface that allows you to create your own reports. Reports can be printed or viewed directly from the web. Reports can even be modified to limit the information contained in the report by the user profile.

The Report Writer not only allows you to create custom filters for each report but also custom Time/Date ranges.

The report creation utility is simple to use and walks you through the process of either using an existing report or creating a custom report. Report Write can limit views based on:

• • Availability
• • Traffic
• • Interface Status
• • Node Status
• • Volume Status
• • Memory and CPU
• • Inventory
• • Response Time
• • Volume Usage
• • Buffer Misses

The Report Writer is great for documenting Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for Availability and Response Time. You can even create a report that displays the availability of all network devices associated with a specific business group like e-commerce.