Scheduling a Report on the Command Center

You can create schedules that automatically generate and email reports to specific users on a recurring basis.

Only users who either created the report schedule or who have ownership of the report schedule can edit, disable, or delete the report schedule.

If you want to send a report to an executive or someone who does not want to open a separate attachment, you can embed the report in an email body. Only the first 250 rows of each table appear in reports that are embedded in an email. These shorter tables provide a high-level summary of the information and improve readability. The row restriction also guarantees that the email remains a reasonable size for most inboxes.

For reports embedded in an email body, you can increase the maximum number of rows that appear in each table using an additional setting. For instructions, see Configuring the Number of Rows for Reports That are Embedded in Emails.

Procedure

1. From the navigation pane, click Reports.

   The Reports page appears.

2. Click a report.

   The report appears.

3. In the upper-right area of the report, click More actions > Schedule.

4. Under Configuration, in the Schedule name box, enter a name for the scheduled report.

   Note

   Do not include a backslash (\) or a slash (/) in the name.

5. Beside Format, select an output format for the report:

   • PDF

   • HTML

   • CSV

   • Email body

6. From the Locale list, select the language for the report.

7. To compress the report attachment, select Compress attachment check box.

8. To send individual emails to the recipient, select Send individual emails check box.

9. In the Report custom name box, specify a custom name for the report schedule.

10. Click Next.

11. Under Notification, in the Users to notify box, specify the user and user group to who you want to send the report to.

12. In the Email recipients box, enter the email address of the users who you want to email the report to.

13. Click Next.

14. Under Output, to save the reports to a location on your network, select Save to network location check box, and then configure the location settings:

    • In the Network Path box, enter the location where you want to save reports.

    • In the Username and Password boxes, enter a user name and password that can access the network path location that you specified.

    Note

    If you want to save the report to your local directory, then enable permissions for the local system user to save the report file in the destination folder.

15. Click Next.

16. Under Pattern, in the Time box, specify the time of day that you want the report to generate.

17. In the Time zone box, select the time zone to use for generating the report.

    Note

    If an SMTP error occurs when the report is sent, an email is sent to the schedule creator.

18. In the Frequency box, select the frequency for generating and sending the report, such as Daily, Weekly, or Monthly, and then configure the settings that appear at the bottom of the dialog box.

19. Click Submit.

Related Topics

Migrate the exisitng Web Console metrics schedules to Command Center