RAS Reports
The RAS Reporting functionality includes 14 predefined reports in 5 groups:
- User Reports. This group provides insight into how end users are interacting with Parallels RAS and includes the following reports:
- User activity - shows all sessions produced by all users in the system. Report includes information about each session; active time, idle time and disconnected time.
- User session activity - shows all sessions produced by a single user. Report includes information about each session; active time, idle time and disconnected time.
- Devices used by user - shows information about the devices being used by a user. Report includes information such as; device vendor, device model and total time used.
- Client operating system used by user - shows the operating system being used by a particular user; operating system, total time used.
- Group Reports. This group provides information about how groups of users are interacting with Parallels RAS and includes the following reports:
- Groups activity - shows all sessions produced by all groups in the system. Report includes information such as; active, idle and disconnected time.
- Group sessions activity - shows all sessions produced by a group in the system. Report includes information about each session produced by each user in the group such as; start, end, active, idle, disconnect and total time.
- Devices used by group - shows information about the devices being used by users that are members of a particular group. Report includes information such as; device vendor, model and total time used.
- Client operating system used by the group - shows the operating system being used by members of a particular group; operating system and total time used.
- Devices Reports. This group provides information about the devices that are connecting to Parallels RAS and includes the following reports:
- Devices used - shows all devices using the system. Report includes information such as; manufacturer, model and the number of sessions opened by the device.
- Client operating system used - shows devices and corresponding operating systems that are using the system. Report includes information such as; device model, operating system and amount of devices.
- RDP version used - shows the Parallels Client version , the device using that version and how many of those devices are being used.
- Server Reports. This group provides information about activity about the Parallels RAS server components and includes the following reports:
- Sessions activity on server - shows the session activity of users on a particular server. Report includes information such as; start, end, active, idle and disconnect time.
- Server health by server - shows server CPU and RAM usage for a particular server in a graph.
- Application Reports. This group provides information about the applications used with Parallels RAS and includes the following report:
- Applications usage - shows information about the applications used in the system. Report includes information such as; application name, number of times used and the total time the application was used for.
Note: The first time the reports are viewed, you may be requested to add http://<server domain/ IP> as a trusted website. This will appear depending on the Parallels RAS machine’s "Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration".
To use RAS Reporting, select the Reporting category in the RAS Console.
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The reporting interface consists of useful tools which are split into sections as described below:
- Remove group nodes and refresh the list of reports available below.
- Reports generated are retained as tabs shown in this section. Click a tab to review the report generated and even cancel a tab to close a report.
- The blue button expands the reporting interface into full screen, while the Tasks drop-down menu allows you to apply the following actions to reports: Duplicate, Full screen, Close report, Close other reports, Close reports on the right, and Close all reports.
- This section lists the arguments available to apply constraints to reports such as the time frame the report will cover and chart type. These change depending on the report selected.
- The View Report button applies the constraints set in the section 4 to generate the report.
- Click this arrow to collapse sections 4 and 5.
- From this section, refresh the report, print the report, export the report to a data feed, or save the report in any of the following formats; XML, CSV, PDF MHTML, TIFF and Word.
- Click this arrow to collapse the reports listing.
- This section displays the new report dialog or old report selected in section 2.
Note: Parallels RAS reporting requires MS SQL Server and the Reporting Service installed and configured.
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