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Custom Reports

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Overview

DeviceExpert provides the option to create your own reports based on your needs. For example, you would require a particular report, say 'Startup-Running Conflict Report' to be generated only for certain devices that you deem critical. Or you may wish to view the 'Startup-Running Conflict Report' in the form of a pie chart to get a quick picture of the quantum of changes. Or you may wish to have the above reports in different format - that is different tabular structure with or without pie charts. Or you wish to have a comprehensive report that is a combination of the default reports. In such cases, you may go in for creating your own reports.

Creating Custom Reports

To add your own report

 

To generate the added report

 

Customizing Report Layout

DeviceExpert generates reports in the form of tables and graphs in a pre-defined layout - that is, the tables bearing the report details are presented in a specific arrangement top to bottom and right to left. For instance, assume that you have added a custom report "abc" to view Configuration Changes report, Network Inventory report and Startup-Running conflict report in a single page. By default, you will find these reports getting printed on a single page in a specific order from top to bottom (say, Configuration Changes report at the top, Network Inventory Report in the middle and Startup-Running conflict report at the bottom).

 

You can rearrange the order of these reports by customizing the layout. You can view two reports side-by-side and place the third one below the two and vice-versa. You can rearrange the components of the report left to right and top to bottom in any desired order, using the layout customization wizard of DeviceExpert.

 

To customize the layout,

 

 

 

 

Managing Custom Reports

To edit reports

 

 

To remove "Custom Reports"

 

Scheduling Custom Report Generation

You can schedule automatic generation of custom reports at required time. This has been captured comprehensively in the previous section. Please refer to that. 


 

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