System Components

The SCA Reporter is a valuable tool for understanding the habits and resource consumption of the applications and subscribers that use your network. It can also be used to judge the efficacy of various rules and the possible impact of their implementation on the network.

The SCA Reporter is available only in a deployment with a database. You can generate reports using any of the following methods:

Standalone application

Command-line interface (CLI)—See The SCA Reporter Command-Line Interface

Tool of the SCA BB Console—See SCA Reporter as a Tool in the SCA BB Console

The available reports can be displayed in various chart renderings (for example, stacked-bar or area) or in tabular form. You can adjust the chart display for various presentation options (for example, 3D). You can export both tabular and chart reports to multiple file formats as well as print or send the reports through e-mail. You can also modify the reports by changing the values assigned to the properties (for example, time boundaries). You can duplicate, save, and add reports to Favorites.

You can also generate reports using the SCA Reporter command-line interface (CLI) without using the GUI.

SCA Reporter consists of visual components (known as views). The following are the views and the tasks that you can perform in each view:

Templates view—Select a report template, create a new report instance, and generate a report.

Properties view—View properties of the object in focus and their values. The object in focus can be a template group, a report template, a report instance, or the chart display of a report. You can configure report instance and chart display properties.

Report view—View a graphical representation or tabular display of the data of the report. Each report is displayed in its own report view.

Progress view—Monitor reports executed or exported. You can view progress details in this view, and also choose to generate reports in the background so that you can continue working on other reports.

Favorites view—View a list of frequently used report templates and generate a report.

Hierarchy view—View the report metrics in a hierarchical tree. You can select and deselect metrics to add and remove them from the report.

Create a report instance from the Templates view using the New Report wizard.

Configure the properties of the report instance.

Execute the new report instance (optional).

Add the new report instance to the favorites view (optional).

View the report in tabular or graphic form in its report view.

Select and deselect chart items in the hierarchy view to view a subset of the report data.

Expand and collapse chart items in the hierarchy view.

Adjust the chart display of the report in the Properties view.

You can generate multiple reports simultaneously and later export, print or send the reports through e-mail. While the reports are executing, you can monitor them and put them in the background by using the Progress view.