You can generate reports from the report definitions
you created. You can generate the following types of reports:
Audit Trail report
Device Inventory report
Device Licence Inventory report
Device Logical Interface Inventory report
Device Physical Interface Inventory report
Device Physical Inventory report
Device Software Inventory report
Job Inventory report
User Accounts report
Note: You cannot generate a report if the report definition
you select contains a type of report that you do not have access to.
The following error message is displayed if you try to generate such
a report: The selected report definition contains object
categories that you cannot access and hence cannot be used to generate
report.
For information about the mapping of report
definition categories to the privileges you require, see Reports Overview.
- On the Junos Space Network Management Platform user interface,
select Reports > Report Definitions.
The Report Definitions page that appears displays all the report
definitions in the Junos Space Platform database.
- Select the check box next to the report definition that
you want to use to create a report and click the Generate Report icon
on the toolbar.
The Generate Reports window is displayed.
- Select the report formats you want to generate by selecting
the appropriate check boxes next to the Report Format field.
Junos Space Platform provides reports in CSV, HTML, and PDF
formats.
- (Optional) Select the SCP Server check box
to configure Junos Space Platform to store the report in a directory
on a Secure Copy Protocol (SCP) server.
To configure the SCP server:
- In the IP Address field, enter the IP address
of the SCP server.
- From the Port spin box, select the appropriate
port number. By default, the port number is 22.
- In the Directory field, enter the name of the
directory on the SCP server to which you want to save the reports.
- In the User Name field, enter the username
that you use to access the SCP server.
You can select
the authentication mode for saving reports to SCP server from Junos
Space Network Management Platform Release 17.1R1 onward.
To use the password mode, in the Password field,
enter the password used to access the SCP server. By default, the Password mode is selected.
To use a key generated from Junos Space Platform, click Space Key. Click the Download Space Key link to
download the key.
Note: Alternatively, you can download the Space Key by selecting Administration > Fabric and clicking the Manage
Space SSH Key icon.
After downloading the Space Key, log in to the SCP server and
append the contents of the downloaded key file to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file.
To use a custom private key, click Custom Key.
(Optional) In the Passphrase field, enter the passphrase
created when you generated the private key.
Next to the Private Key field, click the Browse button
to upload the private key.
- (Optional) In the Fingerprint field, enter
the fingerprint of the remote server.
- (Optional) Select the check box next to the SMTP Server
label to configure Junos Space Network Management Platform to send
the report to the email addresses you specify.
To add Email recipients for reports:
- In the Email Address field, enter the e-mail
address.
- Click Add.
You can add multiple e-mail addresses if you want the report
to be delivered to multiple e-mail addresses.
- Click the Schedule at a later time check box
and specify the date and time to generate the report automatically.
Note: If a report generation is already scheduled for later
using password mode, in order to use Space Key or Custom Key, you
must cancel the existing scheduled task and reschedule it using the
authentication mode of your choice.
If a report generation is already scheduled for later using
Custom Key and if the key has changed, you must cancel the existing
scheduled task and reschedule it using the updated key.
- Click the Recurrence check box and specify
the frequency at which to generate the report.
You can select any of the following options: minutes, hourly,
daily, weekly, monthly and yearly as per your requirement.
Note: The monthly option further provides two more options to
select either the last day of a month or a particular day in a month
.
- Click Generate.
The Generated Report Job Information dialog box appears, displaying
the job ID. Click the job ID to view the job details on the Job Management
page.
- Click OK to close the Generated Report Job
Information dialog box.
The reports you generated or scheduled are listed on the Generated
Reports page. You can view, download, or print the reports.