Forwarding reports using email

About this task

Each report forwarder can include only one report of each type.

The report is created as archive file and saved on the orchestrator server host. If the file is 10 MB or less, the file forwarded as an email attachment. If the file is greater than 10MB, the email includes the location of the files. You can also download the archive file by clicking Reports History and clicking Download in the row for the report.

Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator stores a maximum of 100 reports. If the maximum number of reports is reached, XClarity Orchestrator deletes the oldest report before generating a new one.

Procedure

To forward a report though email, complete one of the following steps.

• Send unfiltered data
  1. From the XClarity Orchestrator menu bar, click Monitoring () > Forwarding, and then click Report Forwarders in the left navigation to display the Reports card.
  2. Click the Create icon () to display the Create Report dialog.
  3. Specify the report forwarder name and optional description.
  4. Choose to enable or disable the report forwarder by clicking the State toggle.
  5. Click Content List, and select one or more reports that you want to forward.
  6. Click Forwarder Destination, and select the destination (see Creating forwarder destination configurations).
  7. Click Schedules, and specify the week day, time, duration (start and end date) when you want reports to be sent. The report is sent at the same day and time each week during the specified duration.
  8. Click Create to create the forwarder.
• Send filtered data
  1. From the XClarity Orchestrator menu bar, open the card that contains the report that you want to send. The following reports are supported.
     • Device data (click Resources () > {device_type})
     • Active alert data (click Monitoring () > Alerts)
     • Resource and audit event data (click Monitoring () > Events)
     • Firmware compliance (click Provisioning () > Updates > Apply and Activate > Devices)
     • Server-configuration compliance (click Provisioning () > Server Configuration > Assign and Deploy)
     • Device warranty data (click Administration () > Service and support > Warranty)
     • Active service tickets (click Administration () > Service and support > Service Tickets)
  2. Optionally refine the data set to only the information that interests you, by narrowing the scope of data to only those resources that are in specific resource managers and groups, and using filters and search to include data that matches specific criteria (see User interface tips and techniques).
  3. Click the All Actions > Create Report Forwarder to display the Create Report Forwarder dialog.
  4. Specify the report forwarder name and optional description.
  5. Choose to enable or disable the report forwarder by clicking the State toggle.
  6. Click Forwarder Destination, and select the destination (see Creating forwarder destination configurations).
  7. Click Schedules, and specify the week day, time, duration (start and end date) when you want reports to be sent. The report is sent at the same day and time each week during the specified duration.
  8. Click Create to create the forwarder.