Navigation & Control:
Point the mouse-cursor at various portions of the image above. Messages will appear to explain navigation and control of reports.

Parts of a VitalSigns for IP Report:

•	A report is a single *.html file provided by a file server or as an attachment to an e-mail.
•	One report provides one or more charts, graphic displays of VIP data as lines and shapes on x-y grids. Navigate from chart to chart by means of the first, previous, next, and last icons, or the Select Graph button.
•	One chart displays one or two x-y grids, one above the other.
•	An x-y grid illustrates multiple series of data points, i.e. multiple lines, or sets of bars.
•	A data series describes a single resource or entity, an interface or stack for example.
•	The legend lists the names of entities and maps them to the colors and shapes used in a chart.
•	The control panel allows you to specify which and how many series or entities are presented in a given chart.
•	Show All causes the chart to illustrate all of the entities available to it. In the case of bar graphs, the result may be unreadable. In the case of line graphs, multiple lines may lie on the same data points, thus obscuring all but the top line.

Saving Reports:
To save a report, select File, Save As... from the browser controls. Then select Web Page, HTML only. The alternative, web page, complete will yield unpredictable results.

Exporting Chart Images:
To copy an image of the current chart, right-click on the chart, then from the menu select Copy Chart to Clipboard.

Bit-map image data now resides in your machine's buffer and can be pasted into some other application--an email message, for example.

Exporting Numeric Data:
To view a table of raw data for a chart, double-click on the chart.

Below the data table, click on Copy to Clipboard. Tab-delimited data now resides in your machine's buffer and can be pasted into some other application--a spreadsheet or text editor, for example.

In the data-table display, you can re-arrange columns by dragging the column headings.

Printing:
To print one or all the charts in a report, click on the print icon at the upper-right.

That will open a dialogue where you can select one or more charts from the report, as well chart meta-data -- the report commentary and selection criteria, for example.

Understand that the browser's native print facility will print everything visible in the browser window, and nothing that isn't.

The report's print function, on the other hand, does not print navigation widgets from the browser display, and does let you select currently unseen charts and meta-data.

Error: Cannot Find a JRE Version Number
At right, see the gray box and green circle? They report the version of your Java Runtime Environment (JRE), and the bytes of memory available to it. If you cannot see them, your browser cannot display VIP's charts.

VIP charts require a browser plug-in: JRE version 1.4.2_13 or newer. If your browser cannot display VIP charts, try installing or re-installing the JRE. A new JRE is free-of-charge from Sun Microsystems: click here, then look to download the Java Runtime Environment (JRE).

Error: Browser and JRE hang
It is possible to create VIP Reports that overflow the memory available to the JRE, causing the browser to hang. To increase the JRE memory:

1. Open the JRE control panel. (Look for the coffee cup icon in a tool bar or the Windows control panel.) 2. Click through the tabs to find the field for Java Runtime Parameters. 3. Enter a string like the following: -xms=512 -xmx=512, where 512 is the number of bytes of memory to be allotted.

Content, Delivery, Scheduling:
VIP reports are configured by the administrator of a VIP Agent. For information about the content, delivery, and scheduling of reports, ask the administrator or see the SDS manual Report VIP.