Creating Report Profiles

Custom reports in Firewall Analyzer are grouped into report profiles, and listed under the My Reports category. A report profile can contain a combination of pre-defined and custom reports. The My Reports section is present in the Reports tab and the left navigation pane.

The process of creating a report profile includes several other tasks such as including and excluding log filters, and setting custom criteria for specific reports.

Creating a Report Profile

Click the Add Report Profile link to create a new report profile. You can click this link from the sub tab, the left navigation pane, or the My Reports section in the Reports tab.

1. For Report Profile Name, enter a unique name for the report profile.
2. Select the devices (firewalls, squid, ...) to report on. If you want to report on all the devices sending logs to a specific syslog port, then select the Select All Devices check box.
3. You can specify the filters on log data, in the section Choose the Filters. Follow the instructions available for Setting Log Filters to know more about operations on Include and Exclude filters.
4. Click Next to continue to the next step of the wizard. Click Cancel to exit the wizard.

This step lets you specify which reports to include as part of this report profile, and set up schedules to generate this report profile automatically.

1. From the list of Available Reports, select the reports that you want to include in this report profile. All the pre-defined reports are listed, along with custom reports that you have previously set up. You can save the report in PDF and also can customize the PDF report by selecting the Customize images for PDF Reports , whereby you can provide your own Cover image (820 by 612 pixels) and Footer image (37 by 547 pixels).

    

   Look up Creating Custom Criteria Reports to know more about adding a new report to this list

    

2. In the Schedule & Email Options section, choose a Schedule Type to schedule this report to be automatically generated at specific time intervals. Choose from hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly schedules, or choose to run this report only once. For Daily, 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.
   
   If the Email the Report option is checked, the scheduled report will be generated and emailed as PDF to the Mail Id that is provided. You can use comma "," separator for multiple mail ids.
   

    

   You need to configure the mail server settings in Firewall Analyzer before setting up an email notification. You can do this from the Setup the Mail-Server Details link.

    

3. Click Preview to see how this report will look like, once it is set up. Click Save to save this report profile under the My Reports section. Click Cancel to exit the wizard.