Managing Report

Before You Begin

You can perform various actions using reports, such as run a report immediately, edit a schedule, edit e-mail recipients, preview a report in pdf format, send reports, clone reports, and view report definition details.

Procedure

To perform these actions:

  1. Select Reports > Report Definitions.
  2. Select the report definition and then right-click the report definition or click the More drop-down list.
  3. Select the appropriate action from the drop-down list:

    Procedure

    Run Now—Starting in Junos Space Security Director Release 16.1, you can select the Run Now option that runs the report immediately and provides a link to view the report in pdf format. You can view the archived reports by clicking the Generated Reports link on the left navigation pane. This option is also available as the Run Now button on the Report Definitions page.

    1. Configure according to the guidelines provided in the Table 369.
    2. Click OK. The report is generated and a link is displayed to download the report in pdf format.

    Procedure

    Preview as PDF—You can preview the generated report in pdf format. You can generate the report as needed.

    1. Configure according to the guidelines provided in the Table 369.
    2. Click OK. The report is generated and a link is displayed to download the report in pdf format.

    Procedure

    Send Report—Sends the report through e-mail to the recipient. The user receives a notification once the report is sent. The user can also use the job ID to see more details of the job. You can generate the report as needed.

    1. Configure according to the guidelines provided in the Table 369.
    2. Click OK.

      The Edit Recipients page is displayed.

    3. Modify or add the recipients, subject line, or any comments for the e-mail notifications.
    4. Click OK to send the report to the recipients.

      A success message is displayed.

    Procedure

    Edit Recipients—Allows user to edit or add the recipients, e-mail address, subject, and comments.

    1. Modify or add recipients, subject, and comments in the e-mail.
    2. Click OK.

    Procedure

    Edit Schedule—Allows user to edit the schedule such as adding a recurrence, start date, end date, and time.

    1. Select an option:

      • Run Now—To schedule the job immediately.

      • Schedule at a later time—Select a date and time to schedule the job at a later period of time.

    2. Select Recurrence to add details, such as the interval at which job should run and when the job should end.

    Procedure

    Clone— Allows the user to clone an existing report definition.

    1. Edit the details of the report.
    2. Click OK.

    Procedure

    Detailed View—Starting in Junos Space Security Director Release 16.2, you can view the report name, description, report content type, report definition type, and its contents in Report Definition Details page.

    You can also click the icon next to Name in the Report Definitions page to view the Report Definitions Details page.

    Table 369: Run Now Settings

     

    Fields

    Description

    Types

    Choose an option from the following types:

    • Run Now—To generate the report immediately, for the default time duration.

    • Custom Time Range Selection—To generate the report immediately, for a selected time range.

    Note: If you select the type as Custom Time Range Selection, then Show Top and Time Span (Last) fields are displayed.

    Show Top

    Select the number of top records to be displayed in the generated report. Valid range is 1 to 1000.

    Time Span (Last)

    Select a period in Minutes/Hours/Days/Weeks/Months or select Custom to choose the time range to generate reports.

    Devices

    Select all devices or specific devices. By default, data is displayed for all the devices in the network.

    Choose the Selective option to select specific devices.

    Select devices from the Available column and click the right arrow to move these devices to the Selected column.

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