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Number of Changes Report

This report displays the number of detected changes in a CIT (additions, deletions, or updates) within a defined time period.

Report Example
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To access

Select Managers > Modeling > Reports. In the Custom Reports pane, do one of the following:

  • Click the Create New Report button and select Number of Changes Report.

  • Under Change:

    • Double-click Number of Changes Report.

    • Right-click Number of Changes Report and select Create New Report.

    • Select Number of Changes Report, and drag it onto the right pane.

Important information

Note In a multi-tenancy environment, the Number of Changes report only displays changes that are relevant to the tenants associated with your View CIs permission. However, Remove CI/relationship events that occurred before an upgrade to UCMDB version 10.01 are displayed independent of the tenants associated with the View CIs permission.

Relevant tasks How to Generate a Custom Report

User interface elements are described below (unlabeled elements are shown in angle brackets):

UI Element (A-Z) Description
<Bar graph/Pie chart>

On the first level, each segment of the pie chart/column in a bar graph represents a CIT of a CI or a relationship in which there was a detected change. The legend displays the colors that represent each CIT.

When you hold the mouse over the relevant color of each segment/bar, a tooltip indicates the number of changes that occurred for that CIT the percentage of the pie it represents (when viewing the information in pie chart format), and the CI type the slice/bar represents

Click a slice/bar to drill down to the second level. to view the types of changes that occurred for each CIT and the CIT's children. The colors in each segment/bar represent the different types of changes that occurred in the application. See the legend to verify the change type each color represents.

Click the required color to drill down to see the number of CIs or relationships for that type of change in table format. Once you do the second drill down, you get the instances that represent the changes described.

Changes of type added or updated are taken from the CMDB. Changes of type deleted are taken from the CI or relationship history.

<Shortcut Menu> Drill down to the level of individual CIs and right-click a CI in the report to access the IT Universe Manager shortcut menu. For details, see IT Universe Manager Shortcut Menu.
<Toolbar> For details, see Report Toolbar Options.
Date from Configure a start date and time for the report.
Date until Configure an end date and time for the report.
Time range

Select a time frame over which to display the detected changes. The system automatically provides the starting and ending dates in the Date from and Date until boxes.

Note If you select Custom, you can manually configure a starting and ending date in the Date from and Date until boxes.