NetVault 13.3.2 - Administration Guide

Generate and view reports on demand: You can run and view reports from the View Reports page. The reports are generated in HTML format and the information is typically presented in tables.

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Customize report views: After a report is generated, you can modify the table views to include or exclude columns, change the column order, and add column totals and other aggregate values. You can save these settings to the job definition so that the custom format is used every time you run the report.

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Use charts in reports: You can add charts to your reports to present the information in visual formats. You can choose bar charts or pie charts.

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Use notification events to send reports by email: You can configure user-defined events and set up the email notification method or create user notification profiles to distribute reports by email. The reports can be delivered as email attachments in PDF or HTML format. Default format is PDF.

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Schedule reports: You can create report schedules to generate the reports once or on a recurring basis. NetVault lets you distribute the generated reports by email or print the reports through the notification system.

NOTE: The following privileges are required to use the reporting system:

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Run and view reports: Reports — View and run reports

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Customize report views: Reports — Modify/edit report jobs and components

You can also use the nvreport utility to run and view reports from the command-line interface. For more information about this utility, see the Quest NetVault CLI Reference Guide.

Working with reports

This section includes the following topics:

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Generating reports

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Setting a favorite report

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Setting filters for report

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Editing report job definitions

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Using notification methods to send reports by email or print reports

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Customizing table views for reports

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Adding charts to reports

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Exporting reports to PDF files

Generating reports

You can access the reports from the View Reports page. You can run and view reports on demand or create report schedules to automatically generate reports at specified times. NetVault also allows use of events and notification methods to send reports by email or print reports.

To generate a report:

In the Navigation pane, click View Reports.

On the View Reports page, select the report that you want to generate. For information about available predefined reports, see Available reports.

Figure 22. View Reports page

To run and view the report immediately, click Run & View.

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To raise the associated events and receive a notification, click Run and Notify.


	NOTE: For information about creating report schedules and configuring user-defined events for report jobs, see Editing report job definitions. For information about notification methods for report events, see Using notification methods to send reports by email or print reports.

To view the page size setting, column sort order, applied filters in the table, export the records, or edit table settings, click the icons at the lower-right corner of the table. For more information, see Customizing tables in NetVault WebUI.

You can use the Search option to filter the table data and quickly find entries that contain the specified string in any column values. You can also include wildcards (“?” or “*”) in the search filter string.

If the report includes any filter conditions (for example, start date, job ID number, client name, and others), the Set filters for report dialog box is displayed.

Set the filters that you want to use, and click OK. For more information about filter options, see Setting filters for report.

The report is displayed in a new browser window.

You can customize the table views and add charts to your reports. For more information, see the following topics:

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Customizing table views for reports

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Adding charts to reports

You can also export the report to a PDF file. For more information, see Exporting reports to PDF files.