Topology Report screen reference

This table describes the fields and buttons on the Topology Report screen.

Item

Description

Refresh Every

Specifies the interval (in minutes) with which the data displayed in this screen is refreshed with the latest status information. The default is 1 minute.

You can click the Refresh icon to refresh the display instantly rather than waiting for the refresh interval to elapse.

If you select the No Refresh setting, the display refreshes only when you click the Refresh icon.

Configuration Messages Status icon

To see the status of the configuration changes the Enterprise Manager is processing, click this icon Configuration Messages Status icon.

Topology Report Icons

Schedule a Report icon  Schedule a Report icon - To schedule the automatic creation of an XML version of the Topology Report at regular intervals, select this icon.

Collect Report Data icon Collect Report Data icon - To collect the Topology Report data manually from all the servers in the enterprise, select this icon.

Generate Report icon Generate Report icon - To generate the Topology report, select this icon and choose either the Excel or XML format for the report. The report is generated from the Topology Report data that was most recently collected from the servers.

Server

The name of each server from which the Enterprise Manager last attempted to collect Topology Report information.

Report Collected

The most recent date and time at which the Enterprise Manager attempted to collect Topology Report information from each server.

A generated Topology Report contains the information that was successfully collected from the server at this date and time.

Status

One of these three statuses appears in this column:

  • Collection In Progress - The Enterprise Manager is in the process of collecting Topology Report information from each server.

  • Success - The Enterprise Manager successfully collected the Topology Report information from a server.

  • Failure - The Enterprise Manager failed to collect the Topology Report information from one or more servers.

    With this status, the reason for the failure appears in the Message column. Also, a message at the top of the Topology Report screen indicates the number of servers from which information was successfully collected.

You can click the Refresh button in the upper-right corner of the screen to see the most up-to-date status.

Message

Shows the reason that the Enterprise Manager failed to collect Topology Report information from a server.

To ensure that the Topology Report includes data for this server, you can address the cause of the failure and manually create the Topology Report again.

If the Status column for a particular server indicates Collection In Progress or Success, this column is blank.

Create a Topology Report

Scheduling the creation of the Topology Report

Manually create a Topology Report in Excel or XML format

Topology Report contents

The Configuration Messages Status icon