Generating Event Reports

EventLog Analyzer offers a rich set of pre-defined reports that help in analyzing event logs and understanding system behavior without spending a lot of time. On a broad level, EventLog Analyzer provides the following types of reports:

Report	Description
Top N Reports	view top hosts and top processes generating events of different severity
Trend Reports	view event trends based on event severity or event category, and alert trends
Compliance Reports	view instant reports for HIPAA, GLBA, SOX, and PCI requirements
Detailed Host Reports	view host-specific event summary for each host
Custom Reports (My Reports)	create custom reports based on specific reporting criteria
Applications	view pre-defined reports for three types of applications, namely, IIS W3C Web Server Logs, IIS W3C FTP Logs, and MSSQL Server Logs.

All the above reports can be accessed from the Reports tab.

Customizing and Scheduling the EventLog Analyzer Reports

All the reports of EventLog Analyzer can be customized and scheduled as per your requirement. The pre-defined reports like Top N Reports, Trend Reports, and Compliance Reports can be customized to suit your requirements. Selectively filtered reports can be created from the pre-defined reports of the EventLog Analyzer. The default reports also will be available.

Procedure to customize and schedule pre-defined reports

On any of the pre-defined reports like Top N Reports, Trend Reports, and Compliance Reports, you will find the icon.

Click on the icon, Create New Report wizard screen opens up.
Create the new report as explained below. But, in this case you will be customizing the existing predefined report from which you clicked the icon.

Step 1:

In the Create New Report wizard first page, enter report details and select host.

Enter a unique name as the Report Name, for the new customized report.
Select the hosts or host groups to report on.
Click Next to continue.

Step 2:

In the Create New Report wizard final page, select the report generation schedule, configure to send the report by Email and generate test report.

If you want to schedule this report to run automatically, choose the time interval after which this report should be generated. Choose from hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly schedules, or choose to run this report only once. For Daily, Weekly, and Only once schedules, you can set the TimeFilter for Custom Hours, Only Working Hours, or Only NonWorking Hours.

For the Daily schedules, if the option Run on Week Days is selected then the reports are run daily except on the weekends. For the Weekly or Monthly schedules, select the option Generate Report only for Week Days if you want to report on the events that occurred only on the week days and not report on events that occurred over the weekends.

You can also add a schedule to this report later from the My Reports section
If you want to email this report select the Email This Report checkbox
1. Enter the e-mail addresses as comma-separated values in the Mail To box
2. If the mail server has not been set up yet, an error message is shown below the Mail To box. Click the link inside the error message to configure the mail server settings in the popup window that is opened.
Click Generate Test Report to see a preview of how this report will look like, once it is set up. Click Finish to save the report. The report is now listed in the My Reports section.

Scheduled reports are generated and emailed only in PDF