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7 Generating PhoneSweep Reports
The Report feature takes PhoneSweep call results and organizes them into an easily readable form that
highlights problems and vulnerabilities. PhoneSweep reports are clearly formatted, easy to review and
suitable for printing or importing into other documents.
PhoneSweep can generate two basic types of reports: a report of what happened in one profile and a
report that compares two profiles and indicates all the differences found (Differential Report). This
section deals with generating standard PhoneSweep reports. Refer to Section 8, Differential Reporting,
for information about Differential Reporting.
PhoneSweep generates reports as Rich Text Format (RTF) files, compatible with Microsoft Word and
other word processors. You can use RTF-compatible word processors to view, modify or print
PhoneSweep reports. Microsoft's WordPad (standard with Windows operating systems) will also read a
PhoneSweep report, but will not properly display or print more complex formatting elements, such as
tables.
7.1 Selecting Standard Report Sections
To generate a Standard Report, call up the Report Dialog box, either by clicking the Report button in
the button bar at the top of the PhoneSweep window, or selecting Report from the File menu to generate
the report. You may choose to run the report after the next sweep instead of immediately, and display the
report automatically after generating it, by checking the appropriate boxes.
The Report dialog box gives you the option of deciding what information you want in your report. By
suppressing or including various sections, you can omit irrelevant data and generate a report more
quickly. Some of the sections may run to hundreds of pages for a long sweep, so be sure to review the
contents before printing PhoneSweep reports.