You can manually run a report using any of the predefined report templates from the Report Templates page. You must at least specify a target for the report (for example, a service, server, or Blueprint) if there is an entry in the Target column of the Report Templates table. You can also edit any other settings before generating a report to return more specific information.
If you think that the report settings you specify while generating a manual report are something you could reuse in the future, you can save the settings as a custom report. For example, if there were servers in your organization named Bertha, Minglewood, and Darkstar, you could customize the Change Detection - Servers report template to be a custom report for each of them: Change Detection - Bertha, Change Detection - Minglewood, and Change Detection - Darkstar. The custom reports are displayed on the Saved Reports page.
Note: If you want to schedule a report to run at a specific time you must save it as a custom report.
To run a predefined report template or save a template as a custom report
The Report Templates page appears unless you have created custom reports, in which case the Saved Reports page appears.
Note: Some report templates have the same name except for the target identifier (Servers, Service, Virtualization, or Blueprints). This supports either the server- or service-centric methods of configuration management.
The Details page for the selected template appears with the General tab displayed by default.
Specifies the name of the report template, or the report if you save it.
Describes the purpose of the report.
Specifies whether the saved report is available to other users, or only the user who created it.
Specifies the output format of the report. The following options are available:
The options with a check are included in the report.
The Targets tab page appears and displays the available targets that corresponds with the selected report type (Servers and Server Groups, Services, or Blueprints).
The selected object appears in the Selected <object> column.
The options are:
Specifies that you must run the job manually (by clicking Run/View as described later in this procedure).
Specifies that the report runs one time only. When you select this option the Time field appears where you specify the date and time for this job to run.
Specifies that the report runs at an interval defined by minutes. When you select this option, additional fields appear where you specify the date to start and end, the start time, and the interval in minutes.
Specifies that the report runs at an interval defined by hours. When you select this option, additional fields appear where you specify the date to start and end, the start time, and the interval in hours.
Specifies that the report runs at an interval defined by days. When you select this option, additional fields appear where you specify the date to start and end, the start time, and the interval in days.
Specifies that the report runs every seven days on a specific day. When you select this option, additional fields appear where you specify the date to start and end, the start time, and the day.
Specifies that the report runs on a monthly interval (configurable from 1 through 12) on a specific date (or the last day of the month). When you select this option, additional fields appear where you specify the date to start and end, the interval, the start time, and the date.
Specifies the notification profile you want to use to generate the notification that is send after the report is generated.
Specify the Subject of the email message sent by the notification profile.
Scheduled report jobs can be viewed in the following locations:
Specifies that the report is not delivered. Instead, it opens on the client computer after it is generated.
Specifies that the report is delivered by file transfer protocol (FTP) to the location specified in the following fields:
Specifies the server name where the report is delivered.
Specifies a user account on the specified server with write privileges.
Specifies the location on the specified server to save the report.
Specifies the password for the user name specified in the User/Login field.
Ensures that the password was typed correctly in the Password field.
Specifies the name assigned to the report file. The file name you enter here is appended with the file extension that corresponds with the report format you selected in step 3. The file name is also suffixed with the time stamp when the report was executed. For example, if the file name is Servers_Open_Ports and the selected format is Adobe Acrobat (PDF), the file name will be Servers_Open_Ports2010-04-20-16-19-59.pdf.
Specifies that the report is saved in a non-default directory on the server on which BO is installed as specified in the following fields:
Specifies the directory in which to save the report.
Specifies the name assigned to the report file. The file name you enter here is appended with the file extension that corresponds with the report format you selected in step 3. The file name is also suffixed with the time stamp when the report was executed. For example, if the file name is Servers_Open_Ports and the selected format is Adobe Acrobat (PDF), the file name will be Servers_Open_Ports2010-04-20-16-19-59.pdf.
The newly created custom report is displayed in the list of reports on the Saved Reports page.
The report runs, and then appears in a web browser.
You can save, print, or export the generated report using the options in the Table Actions drop-down list, and your browser.
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