Users can create customized Reports. These Reports, including the built-in ones are created as children under the Report root tree item as shown in the following picture:

A new report can be create by clicking on the Reports root or any child folder and selecting the report to be created.

3.9.1 Schedule
AutoNOC can generate and e-mail reports according to a schedule or it can compute them on the fly. Click on the report to be modified and then click on the Schedule tab to view the schedule. The following are some of the choices that are available:

• On-Click (Last 24-Hours)
  This selection generates the report on the fly when the user clicks on it for the last 24-hour period.
• Daily
  Generate the report automatically every night.
• Weekly
  Generate the report automatically every week.
• Monthly
  Generate the report automatically every month.
• Quarterly
  Generate the report automatically every three months.
• Annually
  Generate the report automatically for the previous year.

Select the schedule that is desired for the report and save the setting. If you are not sure which schedule to use, just leave the default setting.

3.9.2 E-Mail Delivery
Report objects support e-mailing the report to a set of users. AutoNOC renders a copy of the report in the user's native language and for the user's security set and then e-mails the report to the users. To make use of this capability, start by creating a Set that contains all of the users that should receive the report. For more information on AutoNOC Sets, see 3.3 - Sets.

When e-mail delivery is configured, AutoNOC will compute and e-mail the report according to the schedule and at midnight every night.

E-mail delivery is not mandatory however. So just leave the delivery set empty if e-mail delivery of reports is not desired.

3.9.3 Report Set Objects
Each report takes a set of objects and attempts to build reports from the provided set of objects. The specific Set of objects is chosen on the Objects tab. When computing the report, AutoNOC will query the set and analyze the objects in the report. AutoNOC will only analyze objects that are relevant to the report. For example, if there are devices and probes in a report that analyzes probes, AutoNOC will skip the devices.

For more information on configuring AutoNOC Sets, see 3.3 - Sets.

3.9.4 Display
Each report can be toggled for display on the Analyze tab of the web GUI. To change this setting, click on the Display tab. This tab includes options for toggling the display of the report. Configure the settings for how the report should be displayed.

3.9.5 Sorting
Each report that provides results in a tabular manner includes the ability to sort by columns. The user should specify the column to sort by (beginning with zero for the first column) and the order for the report to sort by. This is shown in the following screenshot:

3.9.6 Inventory Report
The inventory report is a simple and straightforward report that analyzes the devices for the report set and creates a report including the names of the devices, manufacturer, model, type, IP address, MAC address, links, and other useful information.

3.9.7 Probe Analysis Report
The Probe Analysis report is a useful tool for creating customized service level reports. The columns displayed in the report can be customized and it includes a powerful % of time expression that can be used to analyze sophisticated service level scenarios.

Click on the Settings tab to display the columns and % of time expression. The following are the columns available in this report:

• Name
  The name of the object.
• Minimum
  The smallest value during the covered time for the report.
• Maximum
  The largest value during the covered time for the report.
• Average
  The average value during the time period covered by the report.
• % of Time
  The percent of time column that carries the result of the percent of time expression.

All of the columns can be individually selected. When using the % of Time column, you must specify an expression that indicates when the data in the probe should be counted. AutoNOC will evaluate the expression and count a given record as being included when the expression returns non-zero. Conversely, it will not be included when the expression evaluates to zero.

This expression is passed through AutoNOC's interpreter. For full information on the interpreter, see 4.3 - Interpreter.

The following are some example boolean expressions for the % of Time expression.