Manual Chapter : Creating and scheduling Analytics reports

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BIG-IQ Centralized Management

  • 8.2.0, 8.1.0
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Creating and scheduling Analytics reports

Creating and scheduling Analytics reports

Export the Analytics data found in the dashboards found in the Monitoring tab and in the application service dashboards. This allows you to create an audit of your system's device health, traffic, application throughput, and protection events. You can schedule Analytics reports to be sent to one of more email addresses periodically.
Analytics data includes dashboards that receive traffic and service module statistics from Application Visibility and Reporting (AVR). The Access module and dashboards that are supplemented by AVR (e.g. L7 Dashboard, Bot Traffic Summary, and DDoS Protection Summary) are not eligible for statistics reports. For more information about Access reporting, see
Access Reporting and Statistics
.
The reports that are available depend on the modules installed on your system, and how the system is configured. In the report, you can select which dimensions and metrics to export, and customize how often certain data is exported to PDF. Certain data, such as geomaps and top reported metric lists are not included in the report.

Create and export a statistics report

Statistics reports are only available to Analytics dashboards. If you do not have AVR provisioned on your managed BIG-IP devices, or you the dashboard's service module is not installed, your reports will not include data.
Export the chart, dimension, and metric data from an analytics dashboard as a local PDF file.
Some Analytics dashboards contain geomaps and dashlets with top system information. This information is not included in the statistics report.
  1. Go to
    Monitoring
    DASHBOARDS
    and select one of the Analytics dashboards.
    You can also create a statistics report for a application service analytics found in
    Applications
    APPLICATIONS
    .
  2. Click
    Export & Schedule Report
    from the top right of the screen.
    1. To generate a report that only includes data from expanded dimension widgets, select
      Charts with user expanded dimension data
      .
    2. To generate a report that includes all dimension data, select
      Charts with all expanded dimension data
      .
    3. To create a schedule that regularly exports statistics reports to an email list, select
      Schedule
      .
      For more information about creating a reports schedule see
      Scheduling statistics reports
      .
    If you select the options in 2a or 2b, the system will immediately generate a PDF file which you can save using your local system settings.

Schedule statistics reports

To email statistics reports, you must configure an SMTP server. To configure and SMTP servers, go to
System
THIS DEVICE
SMTP Configuration
. For more information, refer to
Configure BIG-IQ to Receive Event and Health Alerts from SNMP and SMTP
at
support.f5.com
.
Create a schedule that prompts the system to collect statistics report regularly. In addition, you can configure the scheduler to send reports to an email list.
  1. Go to
    Monitoring
    DASHBOARDS
    and select one of the Analytics dashboards.
    You can also create a statistics report for an application service found in
    Applications
    APPLICATIONS
    .
  2. Click
    Export & Schedule Report
    from the top right of the screen, and select
    Schedule
    .
    The Create Scheduler screen displays settings.
  3. In the
    Name
    field, enter a unique name to identify the purpose or service data contained in the report.
    You can optionally add more information about the report in the
    Details
    field.
  4. In the
    Emails
    field, enter the email address(es) of the statistics report recipients.
    You can add multiple recipients using the icon.
    If you do not want the reports sent over email de-select the check box next to
    Send Email
    .
  5. To configure the report schedule, enter the
    Start Date
    and
    Start time
    .
    The
    Start time
    indicates the time in which the information is collected regularly.
    The start time and date must be later than the current time to create a schedule.
  6. Configure the
    End Date
    for scheduled reporting.
  7. If you do not want to configure a regular report schedule, but want the report retained in the Schedules list, or you want to send a single report sent via email, de-select the check box next in the
    Configure Scheduler
    field.
    For more information about the schedule list, refer to
    Review reporting schedules and statuses
    .
  8. From the
    Frequency
    field, select how often you want the system to create statistics reports.
  9. From the
    Retention Policy
    field, select the number of days you would like the system to save each statistics report before it is deleted.
    This field is required to create a report schedule.
  10. Click
    Create
    .
The system will now generate, export and save statistics report according to your configured setting.
To view a full list of report schedules, go to
Monitoring
REPORTS
Scheduled Reports
.

Review reporting schedules and statuses

You must create a reporting schedule to manage reports.
Manage your statistics reporting schedules, or manually download reports currently saved on the system.
  1. Go to
    Monitoring
    REPORTING
    Scheduled Reports
    .
    The screen displays a list of report schedules. Reports that have completed their the date of their cycle are marked as
    Expired
    in the End Date column.
  2. To modify a schedule's settings select the check box next to the schedule's row and click
    Edit
    .
    The Edit Scheduler settings are displayed. Once you change the settings, click
    Save & Close
    to update the scheduler.
  3. To delete a reporting schedule, select the check box next to one or more schedule rows and click
    Delete
    .
    To confirm the schedule and its filter metadata's deletion, click
    Delete
    .
  4. To view a list of reports created by a schedule, and details of each report, click the name of the schedule.
    1. To remove a report the system ends its scheduled retention, select the check box next to one or more report rows and click
      Delete
      .
      The report retention expiration date is shown in the Valid Until column.
    2. To download a PDF report to your local system, select the check box next to the report row and click
      Download
      .
      It is recommended to only download reports listed as COMPLETED under the Status column.