Manual Chapter : Schedule statistics reports

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BIG-IQ Centralized Management

  • 8.3.0
Manual Chapter

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
.