Configure Historical Reporting

Power Management supports tracking of historical power data trends and historical reporting groups. To use these features, install the BES Server Plugin Service, configure SOAP API credentials, and enable history tracking on a server.

Power Management provides power information based on the current state of computers in your deployment. You can see historical data trends for power usage and capture historical data to address reporting needs.

The Configure Historical Reporting subnode under Setup and Configuration includes tasks for installing the BES Server Plugin and enabling historical tracking on a server, and a task for configuring historical reporting groups.

Install BES Plugin Service

The BES Server Plugin Service facilitates communication and automation of the BigFix server and Web Reports components with server-side utilities. Several BigFix applications, such as Power Management, require this plug-in service to use all available functions.

You must install the BES Server Plugin Service before you can use the historical reporting feature.

Configure BES Plugin

Before configuring, ensure the BES Server Plugin is installed or updated.

If the BES Plugin Service has not yet been installed, use the Install BES Server Plugin Service task to install BES Plugin.
If the BES Plugin Service has already been installed, use the Update BES Server Plugin Service task to update.

To configure BES Plugin, use the Configure SOAP API credentials for BES Server Plugin Service task. To do this:

Go to Setup and Configuration > Configure Historical Reporting > Install BES Server Plugin Service.
In the description section, click the link Configure SOAP API credentials for BES Server Plugin Service. The following screen appears.
Under SOAP API Configuration, fill in the following fields:
- Web Reports User name
- Web Reports Password
- Confirm Password
- Web Reports URL
Click the action link to execute the action.

This Fixlet validates the username and password against the Web Reports URL before executing the action. If the Web Reports URL is not accessible from the console machine, validation fails; however, the Fixlet still offers the option to proceed.

Enable History Tracking

To enable History Tracking on a server, click the appropriate task in the navigation tree. Click in the Actions box of the task window to enable the Store Power Data Utility.