Users Guide

Running reports

NOTE: To perform any tasks on OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release, you must have necessary user privileges. See

Role-based OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release user privileges.

When you run a report, by default, a maximum of 1000 rows are displayed. To edit this value, see Exporting all or selected data. Data

displayed in the output cannot be sorted because it is defined in the query used to build a report. To sort data, edit the report query or

export it to an Excel sheet. It is recommended to not run more than five (5) reports at a time because reporting consumes system

resources. However, this value of five reports depends on the devices discovered, fields used, and number of tables joined to generate

report. A Reports job is created and run when a report generation is requested. For role-based privileges to generate reports, see Creating

reports.

NOTE: It is not recommended to frequently run a report because it consumes processing and data resources.

To run a report, select the report and click Run. On the <report name> Reports page, the report is tabulated by using the fields that are

defined for creating the report.

NOTE: For a report whose category is 'Device', the first columns in the report must be Device name, Device model, and

Device Service Tag.

To download a report:

1. Click Download.

2. In the Download Report dialog box, select the output file type, and click Finish. The selected output file is displayed. Currently, you

can export a report to XML, PDF, Excel, and CSV file formats. An audit log entry is made whenever you generate, edit, delete, or copy

a report definition.

To email a report:

1. Click Email.

2. In the Email Report dialog box, select the file format, type the receiver's email address, and then click Finish. The report is emailed.

You can email reports to 20-30 recipients at a time.

3. If the email address is not configured, click Go to SMTP Settings. For more information about setting SMTP properties, see Setting

SNMP Credentials.

NOTE:

If you are downloading or running a report that is already generated, and another user tries to delete that report

at the same time, both the tasks are successfully completed.

Related information

Reports

Running and emailing reports

1. Select the report and click Run and Email.

2. In the Email Report dialog box:

a) From the Format drop-down menu, select one of the file format in which the report must be generated — HTML, CSV, PDF, or

MS-Excel.

b) In the To box, type the email address of the recipient. You can email reports to 20-30 recipients at a time. If the email address is

not configured, click Go to SMTP Settings. For more information about setting SMTP properties, see Setting SNMP Credentials.