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Reporter
Scheduling Reports
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Scheduling Reports
Reporter uses cron to generate reports according to the schedule you
specify. Reporter’s scheduling window gives you an easy way to set the
schedule, which is then translated into an entry for your crontab file.
In particular, you can choose to schedule reports:
● Weekly: schedules the report for one day of the week, at the indicated
time.
● Daily: schedules the report at a specific time on one or more days of the
week.
● Monthly: schedules the report on a particular day of one or more
months, at a specific time.
● Custom: lets you select any schedule that can be converted into a
crontab entry. You can choose one or more days of the week, one or
more days of the month, one or more hours and/or minutes, and one or
more months.
You can also suspend a report, which effectively disables its generation.
A suspended report has a crontab entry and continues to appear in the
Report Status window; however, generation of the report is suppressed.
You can reactivate a suspended report, which causes the report to be
generated according to the schedule indicated by the cron entry.
All of these scheduling options are discussed on the following pages.
When a report is generated via cron, any standard output and standard
error from the reportgen command will be mailed back to you, provided
that mail is set up properly on the system and sendmail is running.