Schedule and Run Reports

Monitoring > Reporting > Schedule & Run Reports

Use the Schedule & Run Reports tab to create, configure, run, schedule, and distribute reports.

You can specify what you want to include in your reports: appliances, data granularity (daily or hourly) for non-availability reports, traffic type, and types of charts to include. You can indicate whether the report should be regularly scheduled or be a single report with a custom time range. You can also specify email recipients for the report.

For availability reports, you can specify data granularity (daily or monthly). You can also indicate whether availability reports should include data for individual appliances or aggregated data (for up to 10 selected appliances). Availability reports are generated based on availability time settings you set up. For details, see Availability Time Settings.

Reports and statistics can help you isolate problems, investigate questions, or perform analyses. Orchestrator reports fall into two broad categories:

Statistics related to network and application performance. These provide visibility into the network, enabling you to investigate problems, address trends, and evaluate your WAN utilization.
Reports related to status of the network and appliances. For example, alarms; threshold crossing alerts; reachability between Orchestrator and the appliances; scheduled jobs; network role, service, transport, and interface availability; and appliance reachability.

By default, Orchestrator emails a preconfigured subset of charts every day in a report named Global Report.

You can also view current data by clicking the icon associated with a chart listed on the Schedule & Run Reports tab. The icon associated with the Availability section opens the Availability tab, which shows availability data related to network role, service, transport, and interface, and appliance reachability data.
To view previously generated reports residing on the Orchestrator server, click View Reports at the top of the tab.

Availability reports are generated separately from non-availability reports and are sent separately to email recipients as well.

The following table describes various elements on the tab. Use them to create, configure, and schedule your reports.

Field	Description
Name	Name of the report. To display a currently configured report, select the report from the drop-down list. To create a new report, click New Report, enter a unique report name in the Create New Report dialog box that opens, and then click Save. To remove a report, select the report from the drop-down list, and then click Delete on the Delete Report dialog box that opens. NOTE: Orchestrator provides a report named Global Report, which is preconfigured with a set of selected charts. This report is automatically sent daily to the email addresses listed in the Email Recipients field.
Email Recipients	Email addresses for one or more report recipients. Use commas or semicolons to separate multiple email recipients. To send a test email message or to configure a different SMTP server, navigate to Orchestrator > Software & Setup > Setup > SMTP Server Settings. If a test email message does not arrive within minutes, check your firewall.
Appliances in Report	Appliances to include in the report. By default, all appliances in your network are included. To include only specific appliances, select them in the appliance tree, and then click Use Tree Selection. NOTE: Whether you want to generate availability reports by individual appliance or as aggregated data, do not list more than ten appliances in this field.
Data Granularity – Time Range	Granularity of the data to report. You can select one or both of the following: Daily: Specify the number of days. It is recommended that you specify no more than 14 days because increasing the scope uses additional memory. Hourly: Specify the number of hours (up to 24). NOTE: Daily and hourly ranges are not available for Health Map charts. Instead, these charts collect data for seven days for the day the report is run and for the six days preceding that date. For example, if you run the report on March 10, it includes data for March 4 through March 10. These daily granularity time ranges do not apply to availability reports.
Scheduled or Single Report	You can run your non-availability reports on a regularly scheduled basis or on demand as a single report. NOTE: Availability reports are generated based on availability time settings set up for your appliances. To set this up, navigate to Orchestrator > Software & Setup > Setup > Availability Time Settings. Select one of the following: Run Scheduled Report: Click the edit icon. The Schedule dialog box opens. Click Daily, Weekly, Monthly, or Yearly. Also specify the appropriate schedule criteria, and then click OK. Run Single Report with Custom Time Range: Specify the appropriate date and time range (for example, 2024-8-12 13:00 to 2024-08-19 13:00), and then click Run Now. To stop the report from running, click Stop. TIP: To specify the time zone for scheduled jobs and reports, navigate to Orchestrator > Software & Setup > Setup > Timezone for Scheduled Jobs.
Top	Maximum number of top reports to include in the report. Select 10, 25, 50, 100, or 1000 from the drop-down list.
Traffic Type	Type of traffic to include in the report. Select Optimized Traffic, Pass-through Shaped, Pass-through Unshaped, or All Traffic from the drop-down list.
Application Charts	Application charts to include in the report. Use the drop-down list at the top of this section to include data for All Overlays, All Underlays, or a listed overlay.
Tunnel Charts	Tunnel charts to include in the report.
Appliance Charts	Appliance charts to include in the report.
Availability	Availability charts to include in the report.
Availability Granularity	Granularity of availability data to include in the report (Daily or Monthly). Daily is the default setting. This granularity applies only to availability reports. Availability reports are generated based on the day or month indicated in the Scheduled or Single Report section of the tab. If Run Scheduled Report is used: For daily granularity, the report is generated for the previous day’s availability data. For example, if the report is scheduled to run on June 17, the report shows data for June 16. For monthly granularity, the report is generated for the previous month’s availability data. For example, if the report is scheduled to run on June 17, the report shows data for May. If Run Single Report with Custom Time Range is used: For daily granularity, the report shows availability data for all days within the start date and end date range. For monthly granularity, the report shows availability data for all days within the specified month. If the end of the month has not been reached, Orchestrator will not generate the report. The Orchestrator time zone is used to verify that the end of the month has been reached.
Reports	Select to produce availability reports by Appliance (for up to ten selected appliances) or as Aggregated data (for all selected appliances; this is the default setting).
Lock Scales for Trends	Indicates whether to automatically scale trend charts for specified scheduled reports or to lock scales. Toggle off to automatically scale; toggle on to lock scales.