In this video, I'd like to walk you through using customized templates and
reports and kind of bring all the pieces we looked at together.
And this will give us an opportunity to help remind ourselves of the many
individual components that go into reports and also use many of the custom
elements we've created up to this point as part of a template, which can then
go into a report.
So back here at the 40 Analyzer, let's go down to reports on the left. We'll go
to report definitions.
And let's create a template. We have over 92 templates that are built in and
available here. If you want to preview those, we can click right here on the WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
available here. If you want to preview those, we can click right here on the
HTML.
It'll preview that with sample data to give you an idea of what it looks like.
And what I'd like to do is demonstrate creating a custom template. Again, we
could just like with all the other components here, we could right click clone
one that is close to what we need and then tweak it or you can create it from
scratch.
So I'm going to click here on create new. I'm going to call this our proxy
avoidance template. And then for the category, I'm going to say web.
So I'll use the text here, say this is in our template. I'm going to make that
bigger. I'm going to change the color.
I'm going to go ahead and make it about some purple. That's great. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
I'm going to go ahead and make it about some purple. That's great.
Then I press enter a couple of times. Then I'll click here to add a chart. So
let's go ahead and give it a moment.
It'll pop up asking us which chart we want to use. Let's go ahead and use the
drop down and search for our and scroll down.
And there's our proxy avoidance chart. So again, we could pull from one of the
default charts or the one we created.
I'm going to kind of put all the pieces together and we'll click on OK. So here
's a little preview of what that's going to look like.
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And I want you to notice here as we're working with this template, there's no
option for additional configurations regarding, for example, scheduling a
report or anything else.
Because if we want to schedule a report or specify how far back to look in a
report, that's done at the report level, not at the template level.
Again, think of the template as what chart are we going to see? What's the
style of those charts? What's the text look like? What color is it? What's the
font and so forth?
So I'll click on OK here and there's our proxy avoidance template right there.
And now let's go create a brand new report. So we'll go to all reports.
With the all reports selected, we'll go ahead and click on the dropdown for WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
With the all reports selected, we'll go ahead and click on the dropdown for
report and create a brand new report. So we'll call this our proxy avoidance.
And then instead of just creating it from scratch here, we'll pull from the
template and the template we're going to use from the dropdown.
I'll do a search here for our and there's our proxy avoidance template. And so
that template basically has like that text in the purple color and one table.
That's it.
We can also choose where we're going to save it so we can create folders and
organize our reports that way. I'm just going to leave the default of all
reports there and click on OK. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
reports there and click on OK.
So now we have the option of now editing the settings for this report called
our proxy avoidance. So as far as the timeframe, if you want to run, for
example, for everything this year, you select that or whatever timeframe you're
looking for like the last seven days, the last three days, et cetera.
What devices you want to include or not include. So if you want to specifically
include some of our 40 gates, but not others regarding this report, we can set
that here. I'm going to say all devices.
We could also limit to certain subnets. I'm going to say all subnets. And then WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
We could also limit to certain subnets. I'm going to say all subnets. And then
from here, we could also go ahead and schedule it, set up notifications.
And if we wanted to, we could force it to be cached, which is going to make the
report when it's run run faster. But again, it does take more CPU on the back
end on the 40 analyzer to automatically update that auto cache.
So I'll leave those three of the default for now. Also, I should note here, as
far as the report goes, if we wanted to edit the details, this came from our
template. But if we want to edit here, how the look and feel is, we could add
another chart or we could add more text.
So I'll go ahead and add added this text to report. I'll make that a little WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
So I'll go ahead and add added this text to report. I'll make that a little
bigger. And let's go ahead and change the color. So make that reddish right
there. Fantastic.
So however we want the layout to look, we can update it right here as part of
the details for the report. So here for the settings, we're controlling the
range and so forth.
And here for the editor, we're changing the look and feel. I'll click on apply
and then we'll click on return. So now if we want to run that report, we can
just go down to our proxy. Oh, which one is it?
Oh, that's just right here. Those are earlier on we played with. So our proxy
avoidance. In fact, let me just double click on it to confirm. So we'll go to WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
avoidance. In fact, let me just double click on it to confirm. So we'll go to
the editor. Sure enough.
This is the updated one right there. So click and return. So we want to run
this report. We could right click here and then simply say, I want to go ahead
and run the report by clicking on report here or we could double click on that
report and then click on run report here.
And again, here is showing us the generated reports and we could also generate
reports right here as well. Just be where there's more than one way to see it.
So we'll go back to report definitions, go back to our proxy avoidance and we
'll go ahead and run it right here. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
'll go ahead and run it right here.
And they'll take a moment. And once it's done, it'll show up in this listing
right here. We're getting reports that have been run based on this report we
made called our proxy avoidance. So we can click right here on HTML. So here's
the final report, which is leveraging our template, which was also leveraging a
custom table, which is being shown right here.
And it's being populated based on the data set, pulling that information and
based on the state range that we specified as part of the details for the
report. So again, under our proxy avoidance, this is the one report that was
run. If we went back to generate reports, WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
run. If we went back to generate reports,
it would show us all the reports based on this filter here that have been
generated in the past three months.
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