Administration of Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.1
Chapter 15: Report Setting

Table Of Contents

Report Setting

Specifying User Tracking Report Purge Policy

Specifying Domain Name Display

Set Report Publish Location


Report Setting


Describes how to configure some settings for generating reports and set a report publish location.

This section contains the following sections:

Specifying User Tracking Report Purge Policy

Specifying Domain Name Display

Set Report Publish Location

Specifying User Tracking Report Purge Policy

You can specify the intervals at which old reports and jobs are to be purged, using the Purge Policy option. You can save the Purge Policy, so that the older jobs and archives are purged at the specified interval.

To specify the Purge Policy:


Step 1 Select Admin > Network > Purge Settings > User Tracking Report Purge Policy.

The Report Settings dialog box appears.

Step 2 Check the relevant check box:

Purge Archives Older than

Purge Jobs Older than

You must specify in days, or weeks, or months the period for which you want to retain the report archives or jobs.

Step 3 Click Save.


Specifying Domain Name Display

You can specify the way in which domain names are to be displayed in User Tracking Reports, using the Domain Name Display option.

To specify the Domain Name display:


Step 1 Select Admin > Network > Display Settings > Domain Name Display.

The Domain Name Display window appears.

Step 2 Select the format for displaying the domain names in User Tracking Reports. You can:

Show full domain name suffix

Hide full domain name suffix

Hide specified domain name suffix

If you want to hide the specified domain name suffix, enter the domain name suffix in the field.

Step 3 Click Save.


Set Report Publish Location

Cisco Prime LMS allows you to publish the PDF, HTML and CSV format of all the reports to a directory location of your choice. This is done by setting a default directory path.


Note Ensure that the casuser is assigned the required write permission to publish the PDF format of the report to the directory path.


To set a report publish location:


Step 1 Select Reports > Report Settings > Report Publish Path.

Step 2 Select Report Location.

The Default Report Publish Location page appears, displaying Default Location Settings dialog box.

Table 15-1 describes the field in the Default Location Settings dialog box.

Table 15-1 Default Location Settings Fields

Field/Button
Description

Report Location

Directory path where the PDF format of the reports are published.

Use the Browse button to select a directory path.

The Server Side File Browser dialog box is launched. You can select the directory path in this dialog box.


Step 3 Click Browse.

The Server Side File Browser dialog box appears.

Step 4 Select the directory path from the Server Side File Browser dialog box.

Step 5 Click OK.

The directory path is displayed in the Report Location field.

Step 6 Click Apply to save the default directory path settings or Cancel to reset the directory path.