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Chapter 9
Creating, Running, and Emailing
Reports
This chapter describes AWMS reports including access, creation, scheduling, and distribution.
This chapter includes the following sections:
 “Overview of AWMS Reports” on page219
 “Using Daily Reports” on page222
 “Defining Reports” on page242
 “Emailing and Exporting Reports” on page245
AWMS ships with several reports enabled by default. Default reports may run nightly or weekly, depending on
the AWMS release. Review the list of defined and scheduled reports with the Reports > Generated and Reports
> Definition pages to determine if default reports are desired. If not, you can delete, disable, or reschedule them.
AWMS supports additional specialized reports as follows:
 System > Status page supports the diagnostic report file for sending to customer support: diagnostics.tar.gz.
 System > Status page supports the VisualRF diagnostics report file: VisualRFdiag.tar.gz.
 VisualRF > Network View supports the Bill of Materials (BOM) report. Refer to the VisualRF User Guide in
Home > Documentation.
Overview of AWMS Reports
Reports are powerful tools in network analysis, user configuration, device optimization, and network monitoring
on multiple levels. Among their benefits, reports provide an interface for multiple configurations.
AWMS reports have the following general parameters:
 AWMS runs daily versions of all reports during predefined windows of time. All reports can be scheduled to
run in the background.
 The daily version of any report is available instantly in the Reports > Generated page.
 The Inventory and the Configuration Audit reports are the only reports that don’t span a period of time.
Instead, these two reports provide a snapshot of the current state of the network.
 Users can create all other reports over a custom time period on the Reports > Definitions page. All reports
can be emailed or exported to XML format for easy data manipulation using a spreadsheet.
Reports > Definitions Page Overview
The Reports > Definitions page allows you to define new reports and see the reports already defined.
The Definitions page includes these sections:
 Report definitions section—The Add button allows you to define a custom report using the Custom Options
drag and drop interface, or from any of the report types in the dropdown menu. The Report Definitions table
has a complete list of all saved report definitions with an option to return to each definition’s table to further
customize your report.
 Add and Run allows you to create a report definition and run that report immediately.
 Run Now (visible from the expanded Report Definitions menu) allows immediate running of a custom
report as soon as you set the parameters. You must save its definition separately, if you want to remember
the parameters.