How to schedule a report in Watch4Net

Products

VMware

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - Watch4Net/M&R

Resolution

How to schedule a report in Watch4Net

Scheduled Reports are reports that you can send at a fixed rate to a list of recipients you have defined. For example, if you want to receive (or send) each Monday at 8 AM a specific report on some routers.

Scheduled Reports Management
Click on Schedule this report when you want the report to be generated on a scheduled frequency.

Scheduling Name: The name you want for the scheduled report. If you click on the link icon at the right of the field, you will be able to manually change the link to the report (to use if you know what you re doing).
Link: It is not recommended to manually modify the link to the report. However, if needed, the syntax to use is the following one. For a node with ID 0-2-3e8e8b63-847f58d5 and UID Transactions, it would be either 2:3e8e8b63-847f58d5, either 2:#Transactions, the last one being the best.
Scheduled Since: APG's web portal is setup to check scheduled reports generation every hour. Thus minutes and seconds from the start time you entered will be ignored.
Scheduled Every...: This scheduled report will be generated every period selected here, starting from the time define above. The custom period works as follows: when setting it to 1 day and 1 hour, the report will be generated every 25 hours.
Is Enabled? : When not set (i.e. disabled), this scheduled report will simply be ignored.
Is report stored?: If checked, the report will be saved when completed and will be available on Stored Reports node.
Confirmation email: Leave blank if you don't want any confirmation. This email address list accepts comma-separated values. Aliases are allowed as long as the configured SMTP server knows them.
Available Formats: One or more export formats can be selected here.
Recipients: This email address list accepts comma-separated values. Aliases are allowed as long as the configured SMTP server knows them.
Subject: The text you want as the subject for this message.
Message: The custom message you want to be sent with the report.
Remote location: The report will be send in the desired formats to a remote location defined by a URL.
Confirmation email: Leave blank if you don't want any confirmation. This email address list accepts comma-separated values. Aliases are allowed as long as the configured SMTP server knows them.

Click on Save Changes when the form is filled to save the report in the scheduled reports. Click on Delete to remove the report from the scheduled reports.

Scheduled Reports - Administration menu
Lists some information about the reports that have been scheduled for periodic generation per user :

User Name : The portal user name that has scheduled reports
Report Count : The number of scheduled reports of this user
Average Daily Time : The average of total generation for all scheduled reports
Total Generation Time : The total of generation time since the reports have been scheduled
Total Generation Count : The total number of reports generated since they have been scheduled

Additional information is available by clicking on a specific user. This section cannot be used to manage scheduled reports but rather have a global overview of those that have been completed. Through this interface, you have the possibility to delete or disable any scheduled reports. Here are the columns detail :

Scheduling Name : The name given for the scheduled report
Scheduled Every : The period of the report execution
Last try : Last try of the report execution
Last success : Last success of the report execution
Average Completion Time : The average of all completion time since the report has been scheduled
Last Completion Time : The last completion time of the report execution
Status : The status of the report completion (green : Ok, Others colors : Problems occurred). When problems occur, you can see more information about the status by overflying the mouse on the red or orange icon.