Emailing and publishing reports

<Select a node> > Create a report > Email or publish

> Reports > Customize reports > (click the icon)

The Email report page distributes a selected report template or customized report as an attachment to an email, or populates a file location. You do not preview the report before generating it.

Select groups, devices or monitors first.

1. Select any node in the navigation tree, typically a group. Depending on the type of node, either devices or monitors are listed in the middle pane.
2. Click the View Report button or select the Create a Report > Email or publish command to display the Email report page.

Report configuration

• Selected groups - Displays the selected group node.
• Report template - Select a report template.
• Period - Selects the period of the report.
  • Current day, week, month, quarter, year
  • Last day, week, month, quarter, year
  • User defined period
  • Offset in days

Email recipients

• Select devices / Selected devices - Enter text matching the any part of a the name of device. Select one or more devices from the Select devices list and click the Add button. To remove one or more user groups from Selected groups, select a user group and click the Remove button.
• User / Selected users - Select one or more users from the Users list and click the Select button. To remove one or more users from the Selected users list, select users and click the Remove button.
• Email - Specify individual email addresses as recipients. Separate multiple entries with a comma.

Publish report options

Instead of emailing a report, you can save it to a network location.

• Directory - The generated report is published on a network folder as an HTML document. Specify the path to this folder. Optionally include the following formatting variables when specifying the filename.
  • %[system.date] - the current full date
  • %[system.date_year] - current year
  • %[system.date_month] - current month
  • %[system.date_day_of_month] - current day in the month
  • %[system.time] - current full time
  • %[system.time_hour] - current hour
  • %[system.time_minute] - current minute
  • %[system.time_second] - current second
• FTP host & port -The generated report can be published on a FTP server as a HTML document. Specify the host name and port number. Defaults to 21.
• FTP user -Select the logon account to be used for authenticating against the FTP server here.