User`s guide

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Running Reporter
Reporter includes a graphical user interface that lets you define and
schedule reports of network activity.
To use Reporter to create and schedule reports based on your own net-
work’s activity, ensure that you have checked the required items on the
previous page. In particular, ensure that you are collecting data from the
data sources you want to use with Reporter.
If you have not configured data collection (or if insufficient amounts of
network data are available), you can run Reporter in demonstration
mode, which lets you use Reporter’s capabilities with sample data
sources, data, and report definitions.
When you launch Reporter, the Report Status window opens; this
window gives a summary of all the reports currently defined and
scheduled. From this status window, you can:
● Display the results of a report on the screen.
● Generate a report according to the configured output parameters.
● Open an existing report file that isn’t scheduled and does not appear in
the status window.
● Remove reports; this operation removes the corresponding scheduling
information from your crontab file, but does not affect the report
definition file.
● Create a new report or modify an existing one.
These operations are discussed on the following pages.