You can schedule specific Analytics reports to be sent to one of more email addresses
periodically. The reports that are available depend on the modules installed on your system, and
how the system is configured. In the schedule, you specify the information to include in the
report.
For example, if you are using Application Security Manager™ (ASM) to
develop security policies, you can have the system send reports concerning attacks that were
discovered, policy violations that occurred, and many other security measures. If you are a
network administrator, you could schedule reports about DNS packets. Resource administrators can
send reports so they can track CPU, disk, and memory utilization, and other system statistics.
Many other reports are available that you can schedule to be sent regularly.
Scheduling reports to be sent
Before you can schedule reports to be
sent, you need to configure SMTP on the system, and have the email addresses of the
people to whom you want to send the reports.
You can set up schedules to send
reports by email periodically. You select the information to include in the
report.
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On the main tab, click .
The Scheduled Reports screen opens.
Note: If SMTP is not configured,
you receive a message with a link. Click the link to set up SMTP before
proceeding.
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On the far right, click Create.
The New Reporting Schedule screen opens.
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In the Name field, type a name for the report
schedule.
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In the Send To (E-Mails) setting, type an email address
where you want to send the report, and click Add.
Add as many email addresses as you need to.
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From the SMTP Configuration list, select the
configuration that you want to use.
If no configurations are available, click Create to add
one.
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From the Reporting Module list, select the type of
report you want to send.
The types of reports listed depend on which modules you have provisioned on
your system. For example, if you have ASM and AFM provisioned, the list includes
application security, DoS, and network firewall reports as well as reports
showing general system statistics.
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In the Chart setting, specify what you want to include
in the report. Criteria and measures that you can specify vary for the different
types of reports.
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In the Filter setting, from the lists, select
the time period and number of results to show.
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In the Chart Path, select the top reporting
criteria, then select the measures to include in the report.
The criteria and measures differ depending on which
Reporting Module you select.
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From the Available measures, select the ones to
include in the report and move them to Selected
measures.
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To drill down and include more specific report criteria, click
+, then from the Use top result
list, select another option.
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To include an average of all the statistics and the specific ones,
select the Include Overall check box below the
measures.
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For Mail Frequency, select how often, the date to start,
and the time to send the reports.
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Click Finished.
The report schedule is added to the
list. The specified report is sent by email to the addresses as scheduled. Or, select
the schedule and click Send Now to test sending it right away.
The report is attached to the email as a PDF. You can check the status in the list to
see if the report was sent successfully.
Notes on Scheduled Reports
You can access Scheduled Reports from three places on the BIG-IP® system.
The screen is the same, but the types of reports that you can schedule in each place
varies.
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: Lets you view and schedule reports for all provisioned modules, such as Application Security Manager ™and Advanced Firewall Manager, as well as
for TMSTAT-related statistics, and health-related and network statistics including those for
disk utilization, TCP, UDP, memory, CPU, DNS, and so on. (Requires user role of
Administrator.)
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: Lets you view and schedule reports concerning overall system health-related
and network statistics, including those for disk utilization, TCP, UDP, memory, CPU, DNS,
and so on. (User roles can be Administrator, Resource Administrator, Application Security
Administrator, or Application Security Editor.)
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: Lets you schedule reports that focus on provisioned security modules,
including Application Security Manager and Advanced Firewall Manager. (User roles can be
Administrator, Resource Administrator, Application Security Administrator, or Application
Security Editor.)
If you have Administrator user privileges, you can schedule all of the reports. If you are a
security or network administrator, you would schedule the reports through the Security or
Statistics areas.
Scheduling predefined ASM reports to be
sent
Before you can schedule reports to be
sent, you need to configure SMTP on the system, and have the email addresses of the
people to which you want to send the reports.
Application Security
Manager (ASM) provides several predefined reports that list the top security
issues discovered on the system. You can set up schedules to send one of the predefined
ASM reports by email periodically.
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On the main tab, click .
The Scheduled Reports screen opens.
Note: If SMTP is not configured,
you receive a message with a link. Click the link to set up SMTP before
proceeding.
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On the far right, click Create.
The New Reporting Schedule screen opens.
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In the Name field, type a name for the report
schedule.
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In the Send To (E-Mails) setting, type an email address
where you want to send the report, and click Add.
Add as many email addresses as you need to.
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From the SMTP Configuration list, select the
configuration that you want to use.
If no configurations are available, click Create to add
one.
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From the Reporting Module list, select
Application Security.
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In the Chart setting, specify the predefined report to
send.
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Click Predefined report.
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From the list of predefined reports, select the one to send.
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To include an average of all the statistics and the specific ones,
select the Include Overall check box below the
list.
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For Mail Frequency, select how often, the date to start,
and the time to send the reports.
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Click Finished.
The report schedule is added to the
list. The predefined report is sent by email to the addresses as scheduled. Or, select
the schedule and click Send Now to test sending it right away.
The report is attached to the email as a PDF. You can check the status in the list to
see if the report was sent successfully.
