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You can schedule regular delivery of important Dashboard reports to an email address, file, or printer. For example, the first thing on Monday morning before you even open the Dashboard, you might receive email reports on "Users Consuming the Most Internet Bandwidth," "Web Sites Visited Most Frequently," and "User Activity" for the previous week. The Schedule Reports Management initially is empty; you must set up scheduled reports.
You can schedule reports only if logged in to the Dashboard as a Master login. You will also need Windows login credentials for the computer on which the reports are being scheduled.
Here's how it works:
Use the Dashboard's Schedule Reports Management to add a report task. Right-click in the right pane and select New. Choose the reports and schedule a time and nature of delivery for the reports. Plan to run scheduled reports on a computer with a reliable connection to the Spector 360 Database that will be up and running when the task is scheduled to execute.
You can include one or many reports in one task.
When you save and close the new task, Dashboard passes responsibility to the Windows Task Manager, which acquires the report data directly from the Spector 360 Database at the scheduled time. The Windows Task Scheduler requires the proper login access on the local computer in order to perform the task.
The Windows Task Manager makes sure the report arrives at the specified location, at the specified time. You can use the Windows Task Manager interface to check up on the task, if you wish.
To begin scheduling reports, see Adding a Report Task.
The right pane of Schedule Reports shows all report tasks that have been added and are scheduled to run. See Adding a Report Task to add a new task.
Task Name: Name given to the task.
Description: A description of what is included in the task. For example, you might use this to remind yourself that the "Security Reports" task contains File Transfer reports to and from areas of the network with "sensitive" keywords in the path or file name.
Computer: Name of the computer where the task will be run. The task will run only on the computer where you set up the task using the Dashboard.
Report Format: Format selected for delivery can by Adobe Acrobat, HTML, Microsoft Excel, or Rich Text Format.
Delivery Format: Delivery can be Email (sent to a specific address), File Folder (written to the specified location), or Printer (printed on the specified network printer).
Scheduled: Yes the task has a schedule, or No it does not have a schedule. To "turn off" a task, right-click it and select Unschedule. This clears the task schedule and sets "Scheduled" to No, but does not remove the task from the list of scheduled reports.
Last Run: Date and time the task was last run or Never.
Next Run: Date and time the task is scheduled to run. Shows the date and time as set by the schedule for the task.
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To use Schedule Reports Management:
All Dashboard users can:
Re-sort scheduled reports by clicking on a column heading.
Open a task to see which reports are included, Right-click > Edit.
Show only local tasks or show all tasks. Right-click > Show All/Show Local.
Master Logins can:
Add a new report task. Click New on the toolbar (right-click > New). More....
Edit a report task. Right-click on a scheduled task and select Edit. More...
Delete a selected task. Click Delete on the toolbar (right-click > Delete).
Unschedule a scheduled task. Right-click > Unschedule Task.
Change a schedule or set up a schedule for an unscheduled task. Right-click > Schedule Task. More....
Configure SMTP mail delivery for reports being delivered by email. Right-click > Configure SMTP. More...
About Scheduled Reports
