Table Of Contents

Generating Reports

Using the Reports Job Browser

Using the Report Generator

Viewing Archived Reports

Purging Reports Jobs and Archived Reports

Generating Reports

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You can perform all your reporting related tasks from a single location—The Reports tab (Campus Manager > Reports).

You can perform the following tasks:

•Managing report jobs. You can view the output for completed jobs, abort or delete jobs, etc. See Using the Reports Job Browser.

•Generating immediate reports or scheduling them for a later point of time. See Using the Report Generator.

•Managing report archives. You can view an archived report. A report is archived when a scheduled report job is completed successfully. See Viewing Archived Reports.

•Performing administrative tasks. You can do administrative operations on reports such as purging the archives, or report jobs. See Purging Reports Jobs and Archived Reports.

Using the Reports Job Browser

You can manage Report Jobs using the Reports Job browser. You can also view the output of completed jobs, stop running jobs or delete jobs if required.

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Note View the Permission Report (Common Services > Server > Reports) to check whether you have the required privileges to perform this task.

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To open the Reports Job Browser, select Campus Manager > Reports > Report Jobs.

The Reports Job Browser page appears with a detailed list of all scheduled report jobs.

The columns in the Reports Job Browser page are:

Table 6-1 Reports Job Browser 

Column	Description
Job ID	Unique ID assigned to the job when it is created. For periodic jobs such as Daily, Weekly, etc., the job IDs are in the number.x format. The x represents the number of instances of the job. For example, 1007.4 indicates that this is the fourth instance of the job ID 1007.
Job Type	Type of Report—for instance, Discrepancies.
Description	Description of the job provided by the job creator. (Alphanumeric characters).
Owner	Username of the job creator.
Scheduled At	Date and time the job was scheduled at.
Completed At	Date and time the job was completed at.
Schedule Type	Specifies the type of schedule for the job: · Once—Runs the report once at the specified date and time. · Daily—Runs daily at the specified time. · Weekly—Runs weekly on the day of the week and at the specified time. · Monthly—Runs monthly on the day of the month and at the specified time. For periodic jobs, the subsequent instances of jobs will run only after the earlier instance of the job is complete.
Status	Status of the scheduled job—Scheduled, Succeeded, Failed, Running, and Cancelled.

Use the Show Only drop-down list to filter results based on Job Type.

You can stop a running job from the Reports Job Browser.

Select the job and click Stop. You are prompted for a confirmation before the job is stopped. You can select more than one job to stop.

You can delete a job from the Reports Job Browser.

Select the job and click Delete. You are prompted for a confirmation before the job is deleted. You can select more than one job to delete.

Using the Report Generator

Using the Report Generator of Campus Manager, you can generate immediate reports or schedule reports to be run at a later time.

You can generate reports for the following:

•Best Practices Deviations

•Device Attributes

•Discrepancies

•Port Attributes

•VLAN

To use the report generator:

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Step 1 Select Campus Manager > Reports > Report Generator.

The Campus Manager Reports dialog box appears, in the Report Generator page.

Step 2 From the first drop-down list, select the application for which you want to generate a report. Campus Manager Reports is selected by default.

Step 3 Select a Report from the list of available reports for the selected application.

You can also schedule the reports as jobs. That is, you can specify the date, time, and frequency at which the reports are to be generated.

The Campus Manager Reports dialog box appears for the selected report. For details of how to enter information, see the respective chapters or sections in the User Guide.

To generate:

•Best Practices Deviations Report, see Viewing Best Practices Deviations Reports

•Device Attributes Report, see Displaying Device Attributes

•Discrepancies Report, see Viewing Discrepancy Reports

•Port Attributes Report, see Displaying Port Attributes

•VLAN Report, see Displaying VLAN Reports

If you want to reset the information that you have entered into the Campus Manager Reports dialog box, and revert to the default report settings, click Reset.

Step 4 Click Submit.

The report is generated if the Run Type is set to Immediate. For any other Run Type, the report is created as a job. You can view the job from the Campus Manager Report Job Browser (Campus Manager > Reports > Report Jobs).

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Successfully generated reports are are stored in the Archives. You can access the reports archives by selecting Campus Manager > Reports > Report Archives.

Viewing Archived Reports

The report output that is created from a scheduled report is stored in the reports archive. The archive displays the list for completed report jobs and you can view or delete them.

To view or delete archived reports:

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Step 1 Select Campus Manager > Reports > Report Archives.

The Archives dialog box displays all archived reports.

The columns in the Archives dialog box are:

Table 6-2 Report Archives 

Column	Description
Report Description	Description of the report, that was entered at creation time.
Report Type	Type of Archived Report—VLAN Report, Port Attributes Report, and so on.
Creation Time	The date (yyyy-mm-dd) and the time (hh:mm:ss) the report was created.

Step 2 Select the required report.

Step 3 Click View.

The archived report that you selected, appears.

If you want to delete an archived report, select the report and click Delete. You are prompted to confirm the deletion.

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Note Immediate Run Type reports are not archived by Campus Manager.

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Purging Reports Jobs and Archived Reports

You can purge jobs or report archives in Campus Manager. By default, purging is disabled.

To enable the Purge option for report jobs and archives:

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Step 1 Select Campus Manager > Reports > Purge Settings.

The Report Settings dialog box appears. You can specify the Purge Policy for archives or jobs here.

Step 2 Check the Purge Archives Older than checkbox to specify the number of days, or weeks, or months to purge archives.

For instance, if you select 44 days, Campus Manager purges archives that are older than 44 days.

Step 3 Check the Purge Jobs Older than checkbox to specify the number of days, or weeks, or months to purge jobs.

For instance, if you select 2 weeks, Campus Manager purges jobs that are older than 2 weeks.

Step 4 Click Save.

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