Creating Custom Reports for AS/400 Hosts
Custom reports in EventLog Analyzer let you monitor specific events and hosts
exclusively. Custom report profiles can be scheduled to run automatically during
selected time intervals, and also e-mailed to recipients as PDF or CSV reports.
Custom reports are listed under the My Reports section, found
in the Reports tab, and the left
navigation pane.
The My Reports section lists all the custom reports created
so far, the hosts that are reported on, and scheduling options. Click on the
report name to view the report. The page contains a menu bar and the menu bar contains the following menu:
- Add New Report - Click this menu to create a new custom report.
- Delete Report - Select the check boxes of custom reports to be deleted and click the
Delete Report link to delete report(s).
- Export Profiles - Select the check boxes of report profiles to be exported and click this menu. The profile will be downloaded as an XML file (EventLogAnalyzer_Profiles.xml), through your browser into your client machine.
- Import Profiles - Click this menu to import report profiles. On clicking the menu, Import Profiles screen pops-up. In that, you will find File Location text box and Browse button besides. Enter the location of the XML file (EventLogAnalyzer_Profiles.xml) or use the browse button to locate the XML file. Click Import button to import the profiles in to EventLog Analyzer server and Cancel button to cancel the import profiles operation. If the report already exist in EventLog Analyzer, clicking Import button will list Failed To Import option and the existing reports with check boxes and you will find Over Write button and Cancel button to cancel the import profiles operation. Select the check boxes of report profiles to overwrite and click Over Write button.
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There will be no hosts configured for the imported report profiles. You have to edit the report profile to configure the hosts. |
Click the
icon to edit the corresponding custom report configuration details. If the report profile has no schedules associated with it, the
icon is displayed. Click this icon to schedule
the report profile. If the report profile already has a schedule associated
with it, the
icon is displayed. Click this icon to create
another schedule for this report profile.
Creating a New Custom Report for AS/400
Click the Report link to create a new custom report for AS/400. You can find this link (AS/400 > Report) on the sub tab below the main tabs.
Click the Add New Report link opens the Create New Report wizard with three pages.
Step 1:
In the Create New Report wizard first page, enter report details and select host.
- Enter a unique name as the Report Name, for the new custom report.
- Select the hosts or host groups to report on.
- Click Next to continue.
Step 2:
In the Create New Report wizard second page, select the event filters.
- You have two options (Basic Options and Advanced) to filter the messages under two tabs.
- Basic Options tab
In the basic option, when multiple values are entered, all the values are considered for filtering events.
- You will find Drop the Logs containing text box to drop the logs containing the message(s).
- You will find Except text box to exclude an event with a specific event log message.
- You will find Event Source text box to filter out events received from a specific event log source.
- You will find User text box to filter out events received for a specific user. This field is effective only for Security (Important) events.
Multiple values can be entered in the text boxes separated by commas.
- Advanced tab
In the advanced option, when multiple values are entered, any of the values or all the values are considered for filtering events depending up on the selection of Match Any or Match All radio buttons.
- You will find Match Any and Match All radio buttons for Drop the Logs containing text box to drop the logs containing the message(s).
- You will find Match Any and Match All radio buttons for Except text box to exclude events with a specific event log message, from filtering out.
- You will find Event Source text box to filter out events received from a specific event log source.
- You will find User text box to filter out events received for a specific user. This field is effective only for Security (Important) events.
Multiple values can be entered in the text boxes separated by commas.
- Select the severity of events which needs to be filtered, from the list of severity in the Severity row.
The event severity are:
- Emergency
- Alert
- Critical
- Error
- Warning
- Notice
- Information
- Debug
Any combination of event severity is possible and select the appropriate check boxes provided.
The unselected event severity will be dropped.
- Enterthe message ID of AS/400 host error message to be filtered, in the Message ID field.
- Enterthe name of the IBM AS/400 job for which the error message to be filtered, in the Job Name field.
- Click Next to continue.
Step 3:
In the Create New Report wizard final page, select the report generation schedule, configure to send the report by Email and generate test report.
- If you want to schedule this report to run automatically, choose the time
interval after which this report should be generated. Choose from hourly,
daily, weekly, or monthly schedules, or choose to run this report only
once.
For Daily, Weekly, and Only once schedules, you can set the
TimeFilter for Custom Hours, Only Working Hours,
or Only NonWorking Hours.
For the Daily schedules, if the option Run on Week Days is selected then the reports are run daily except on the weekends. For the Weekly or Monthly schedules, select the option Generate Report only for Week Days if you want to report on the events that occurred only on the week days and not report on events that occurred over the weekends.
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You can also
add a schedule to this report later from the My Reports
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- You can select the report format. Select the Report Format, PDF or CSV radio buttons.
- You can select the summary or detailed report to be generated. Select the Generate Report, Summary & Details or Only Summary radio buttons.
- If you want to email this report, select the Mail To
check box.
- Enter the e-mail addresses as comma-separated values in the Mail
To text box.
- If the mail server has not been set up yet, an error message is shown
below the Mail To box. Error message: "Mail Server is not configured. Click here to configure the Mail Server." Click the link inside the error
message to configure
the mail server settings in the popup window that is opened. If the mail server has been configured already and you want to reconfigure click the link in Reconfigure
the Mail Server here message and reconfigure the mail server settings in the popup window that is opened.
- Click Generate Test Report to see a preview of how this report will look like,
once it is set up. Click Finish to save the report. The report is now listed
in the My Reports section.
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Scheduled reports are generated and emailed in PDF or ZIP format. |
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