Submitted by: Pete Zerger
Enough report models to make custom reporting an easy task with minimal need for Visual Studio.
Challenge: Report authoring is difficult in OpsMgr
Solution: Provide more report models for admins and authors to use to build reports.
Severity: 4
Applicability: 4
Again, anything to make report authoring easier is a win in my book.
I think report models in OpsMgr 2007 are definitely another useful tool for extracting trending data (and great for creating ad-hoc event reports). To answer the need here, report models should be:
Guidance is needed in this area today. At this time, we only have two models (event and performance) and no good working examples of how to produce compelling output.