1.) Clicking on "Reports" button in the main tool bar.
2.) Clicking on Modules -> Reports from the menu bar.
3.) Clicking on "Reports" node in the tree view on the left.
After you have followed any of the above mentioned steps, you will see something similar to the following figure:
Figure 1: Report Manager
Before we proceed, its important to give 2 definitions here that will be frequently used throughout the Reporting Module.
Report Template
A Report Template is the report that is shipped with MonitorWare Console. All of the reports are Report Templates. You can create as many "Saved Reports" as you like from these "Report Templates" by applying different filters or adjust the reporting format for example. You can not generate a report from a Report Template itself. You have in any case first create a "Saved Report".
Saved Report
Saved Reports are the reports which you can save by opening up a specific template. For each report you can specifiy different settings that will apply to only that Saved Report. For example, in the above figure, there are 3 "Saved Reports", which the user has saved himself for the Report Template "Traffic By Target IP". Each Saved Report can have its own name, own description, own settings and own filters. In the above sample, the first saved report i.e. "last 24 hours report" has been saved by applying the filter so that the "Traffic by Target IP" is displayed for the last 24 hours only.
Report Manager (RM) provides a centralized control over all Reporting related functions. In Figure 1 RM is the screen visible on the right hand side – visually it is identified with title in a lilac band on the top of the screen. Report Manager provides following functions:
| 1.) | RM displays the list of all templates and saved custom reports. In the Report Manager, you will see some reports in Blue color and some in Purple color. The reports in Blue color are PIX reports. The reports in the Purple color are the Windows Reports. The ones in the lighter shade are their corresponding Saved Reports that the user has saved after applying some filters on that report.
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| 2.) | RM is synchronized with the Tree control present on the left hand side of the main window. The same templates and saved custom reports are shown hierarchically in the tree control as well. Saved custom reports are shown as sub nodes to the corresponding templates. In the above figure, a plus (+) sign with System Summary template in the tree control tells that there are saved custom reports available for this template.
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Refresh
This button in the RM toolbar fetches the fresh list of reports.
Delete
Deletes the selected template and its corresponding saved reports as well. Note that, templates (being .dll files) are not physically deleted from the folder, they only get un-registered from the application. To register them again, simply click on "Refresh".
Delete All
Deletes all of the reports and their corresponding saved reports.