Custom Report in Grid Control has Issue with MS Outlook

  • From: "David Barbour" <david.barbour1@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 12:27:06 -0500

This is probably a flippin' Windows question, but it's got me stumped at the
moment.  My manager had been having a recently departed member of our team
log CPU utilization details daily into a spreadsheet.  There are five
servers involved, a database server and 4 application servers.  Rather than
having the task rotate through the remaining members of our much shrunken
staff (including me), I 'mentioned' that I could email him a CPU report from
Grid Control.

So far, so good.

So I create the report.  It shows our Central Instance/Database Server (this
is SAP) and the 4 Application Servers.  Preview gives me 5 pretty little
graphs, properly labeled and everything.

So far, so good.

I email the report and when I get it in Outlook, the graphs and headers
change as I scroll!  So I end up looking at the Central Instance graph twice
and Apps Server 2 three times, which changes as I scroll up and down the
email to the Central Instance once, Apps Server 1 once, and Apps Server 3 a
couple of times. Actually as I scroll up and down, it's a toss-up as to what
will show up on the screen.

Not really sure it matters since I really doubt it'll ever be looked at
anyway (unless there's a problem), but just in case, and because I actually
care about my work ...................

If I email it it gmail, it works like a champ.

Looked in Metalink (My Oracle Support) and despite a number of creative
seraches (I do like the new search functionality - it's a lot better), can't
find any references.

Okay, it's probably me.  I've also messed around with my Outlook Settings
which merely served to temporarily disable and crash that whole
application.

Anybody had a similar experience with emailed Grid Control reports?

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