Reports

View report tab

A report can be manually run at any time by selecting Run Report Now.

Competed reports are displayed in the View Report tab of the Reports tab. The report name, available formats, and completion time or status are shown in the table. Reports can be viewed in HTML or as PDFs.

The toolbar and the right-click menu provide options to delete or download the selected reports, as well as to run the report.

Completed reports can be viewed for specific devices from the Device Manager tab. See “To view device reports:” on page 175.

Completed reports can also be downloaded and deleted from the Report Calendar page. See “Report calendar” on page 198.

Figure 122:View completed reports

The following options are available:

Report Name The name of the report.

Click the column header to sort entries in the table by report name.

Format Select HTML to open the report in HTML format in a new web browser tab or window, depending on your browser settings.

Select PDF to open or download the report in PDF format.

Completion

Time/Status

The completion status of the report, or, if the report is complete, the data, and time (including time zone) that the report completed.

Click the column header to sort entries in the table by completion time.

Right-click on an report in the list to open the right-click menu. The following options are available:

 Run Report Now Select to run the report now.
 Delete Select one or more reports in the completed reports list, then select Delete from the toolbar or right-click menu. Select OK in the confirmation dialog box to delete the selected report or reports.
 Download Select one reports in the completed reports list, then select Download from the toolbar or right-click menu to download the selected report or reports.

Each report will be saved individually as a PDF file on the management computer.

Reports that are not done cannot be downloaded.

To view device reports:

  1. In the Device Manager tab, select the ADOM that contains the device whose report you would like to view, and select the device. You can select to view reports by device or by

VDOM.

All of the reports that have been run for the selected device are shown in the left content pane. See “Device reports” on page 39.

Figure 123:Device reports

  1. Select a format from the Format column to open the report in that format in a new browser window or tab.
  2. Select a report, then select Download from the right-click menu to download the selected report. See “Download” on page 174.
  3. Select one or more reports, then select Delete to delete the selected reports. See “Delete” on page 174.

Report layouts

In the Layout tab, you can configure report template settings and layout. Various content can be added to a report template, such as sections, charts, images, and typographic elements, using the layout toolbar. The template color scheme, fonts, and layout can be controlled, and all the report sections and elements can be edited and customized as needed.

Figure 124:Layout tab

The following options are available:

Elements Add elements to the report template. See “Elements” on page 180.
 Settings Adjust the template workspace. See “Workspace settings” on page 177.
 Save Save your template changes.

Workspace settings

The report template workspace controls the colors, fonts, alignment, and margins of the report.

To edit the template workspace:

  1. Select Setting in the layout tab toolbar.

The Edit Workspace dialog box opens.

Figure 125:Edit workspace

  1. Configure the following settings:

Header Background Select the background color for the header from the drop-down list.

Color

Footer Background Select the background color for the footer from the drop-down list.

Color

Section Background Select the background color for sections from the drop-down list. Color

Font color Select the font color from the drop-down list.
Font size Enter the font size. The default size is 12 px.
Font family Select one of the following: Courier, Helvetica, Times, SimSun,

SimHei, MingLiu, MS-Gothic, MS-PGothic, MS-Mincyo,

MS-PMincyo, DotumChe, Dotum, BatangChe, or Batang.

Left margin Select the left margin value from the drop-down list.
Right margin Select the right margin value from the drop-down list.
  1. Select Apply or OK to apply your changes.

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One thought on “Reports

  1. Mark

    Hello Mike, I want to generate a one time report from a site one for inbound the other for outbound traffic, I was asked to use all the IP subnets from the site as a criteria

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