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  3. Section V. Report Reference
  4. File Analytics Reports
  5. File Categories

File Categories

Explore your data center using customizable report templates or by using parts of your IT infrastructure as entry points. Use Search to find reports, templates and dashboards across the portal.

Use the Reports tab to examine the catalog of templates, dashboards and reports - organized by products along with user-created, and system folders. This report is located here:

File Analytics > Storage Efficiencies > File Categories

This report aggregates file types into application categories. Bar charts provide an at-a-glance view of storage consumption by application.

See File Analytics Overview.

Table: File Categories

Column name

Description

Category Name

Application category

# Files

Number of files in this category

Average Size

Average size of the files in this category

Total Size

Total size of the files in this category

Size %

Size % of the files in this category

Export List

Click this checkbox to launch a window where you can specify the criteria for the categories to be exported.

See File list export.

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