Can BIRT be used as a test-bed for a logging program?

I'm trying to model an autono开发者_Go百科mic computing system. Can I use BIRT as the test-bed?

BIRT is a reporting tool (and which, despite its name, has very little business intelligence at all - we switched from BIRT to Cognos BI for exactly that reason).

You can certainly use it to generate reports showing how your autonomic system is doing but all you would be doing is gathering the data from somewhere and presenting it.

I can't see BIRT being used in any other meaningful way for a test bed for any type of system.