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Chapter 9
Creating, Running, and Emailing
Reports
This chapter describes AWMS reports, including report access, creation, scheduling, and distribution via email
and XML processing.
This chapter includes the following sections:
 “Overview of AWMS Reports” on page261
 “Using Daily Reports” on page264
 “Defining Reports” on page289
 “Emailing and Exporting Reports” on page292
AWMS ships with several reports as enabled by
default. Default reports may run each night or weekly, depending
on the AWMS release. Aruba recommends that you 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 any report.
AWMS supports additional and more sp
ecialized 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.
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, allowing you to
act upon information in the reports. You can generate an export a wide variety of reports in AMP.
AWMS reports have the following gener
al parameters:
 AWMS runs daily versions of all reports during predefined windows of time. All reports can be scheduled so
that they run in the background.
 The daily version of any report is available instantly using the Reports > Generated page and scrolling to the
report links at the bottom of the page.
 The Inventory and the Configuration Audit reports are the only reports that do not span a period of time.
Instead, these two reports provide a detailed 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 to take inventory of reports already
defined.
The De
finitions page includes these sections:
 Report definitions pane—The Add button allows you to define a custom report using the Custom Options
drag and drop UI or any of the report types from a 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.