You can schedule a report to analyze the data in dashboard widgets.
Prerequisites
Verify that your user account is associated with a role that has Edit permissions for Dashboards > Scheduled Reports. For information about roles, see Create and Modify Roles in Administering VMware Aria Operations for Logs.
Procedure
- Expand the main menu and navigate to Reports.
- Click Schedule Report.
Tip: Alternatively you can open a dashboard from the
Dashboards page and click the
Schedule Report icon in the upper-right corner of the page.
- Enter a name for the report.
- From the Dashboard Select drop-down menu, select the dashboard for which you want to schedule the report.
- From the Dashboard Duration drop-down menu, select a period of 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, or a custom period.
This period determines the duration within which the dashboard data is used to generate the report, till the Schedule Time.
For example, if you select a Dashboard Duration of 10 minutes and a Schedule Time of 08:30, the report is scheduled based on the dashboard data from 08:20 to 08:30.
- In the Schedule Time, select the date, time, and recurrence to schedule the report.
You can set the frequency of the report to a single day of a week or month, or a range of days. The following report is sent to recipients on the 1st and 30th of every third month starting from the set date. As the report is scheduled from the 07th of July, the recipients will receive the first report on the 30th of July, followed by 1st and 30th of October, and so on.
- Under Notify, enter comma-separated recipient email addresses to send email notifications for the report.
For all enabled report configurations, the reports are generated and sent to corresponding recipients based on the provided schedule and for the specified dashboard.
- (Optional) To send a test report notification, click Send Test Report.
- Click Save.
Results
Your report appears in the
Reports page.
The actual report is sent to the recipients based on the schedule as a PDF attachment. For example, let us consider a report schedule with a dashboard duration of 10 minutes and a schedule configured for every 5 days with a start time of 15:30. The report is sent every 5 days at 15:30 as a PDF attachment. The attachment contains information for the specified dashboard within the selected dashboard duration, which is from 15:20 to 15:30.
Note: Some widgets such as Event types and Event trends are not supported in scheduled reports. When the report is generated for a dashboard containing unsupported widgets, the report displays
Widget type not supported in the PDF file.
What to do next
You can enable, deactivate, or modify the report. See
View and Manage Reports.