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dropdown list. If you have external e-mail access from your environment, this is the preferred method. • Manually-Requires you to send your data manually to HP to obtain a SAN Visibility report. If you do not have external e-mail access, use this method. Obtaining a report automatically 1. Click Data Collection. 2. Select the fabric for which you want to create a report from the Choose switch group for data collection. Check Collect data for all switch groups to create reports for all the fabrics. 3. Clear Capture Performance data. If you want to gather switch performance data, leave this option selected. Selecting this option will increase the amount of time required to collect the switch data. 4. Select Mask IP Address check box if you do not want to send the IP address information (in the raw report) outside your network. 5. Select a format for your report by selecting either HTML Report or Microsoft Excel Report, or both. 6. In the Data Collection sub-box, click Start. A message is displayed in the message area on successful completion of data collection. If you have selected the option to collect switch performance data, it will take at least 10 minutes to collect the data. When data collection is complete, the raw data is sent to HP. The report is processed and the formatted report returned to you within one business day. 7. When you receive the formatted report, save it to a temporary location on the management server. 24 Pre-upgrade tasks