Uploading software distribution events

Up to now, the event data about software distributions are only available locally on the agent. However, to be able to generate reports on this topic and to view them in the console together with other data these events must be specifically uploaded to the master and its database. After data is available on software distributions on your network, you can generate different reports to summarize the general situation or detail specific distributions. The following topic will guide you through some of these possibilities. You can find the general information about reports in the Reporting topic.

1. Click the Wizards > Operational Rule Creation Wizard menu item.
   The Operational Rule Creation Wizard window appears.
2. Make the following changes in the Definition window:
   1. Enter a descriptive name into the Name box, for example, Upload Software Distribution Events .
   2. Click Next to continue.
3. Make the following changes in the Steps window:
   1. Click Add Step .
      The Select a Step pop-up menu appears, and displays the list of available steps.
   2. Click the Event Log Manager folder.
   3. Select the step Upload Events and click Add .
      The Properties pop-up menu appears.
   4. From the Model Name list, select the Software Installations value and leave all other boxes as they are.
   5. Click OK to confirm the parameters.
   6. Click OK again to add the step to the rule.
   7. After all steps are added, click Finish to confirm the new rule and finish this wizard.
   8. In the Confirmation dialog box, click Yes to continue directly with the distribution of the new rule.
      The operational rule is now configured and must be assigned to the targets.
4. Make the following changes in the Operational Rule window:
   1. Click Next to continue without any modifications.
   2. Make the following changes in the Assigned Targets window:
   3. Click Assign Device Group .
      The Select a Device Group pop-up menu appears.
   4. Select the device group(s), for example All Devices from the list box.
   5. Click OK to confirm.
   6. Click Finish now to confirm all settings and finish this wizard.
   7. In the Confirmation dialog box, select the Go to Operational Rule radio button to change the focus of the console window to the rule distribution view of the assigned group. Click Yes to confirm the activation.
      In the table to the right, you can see the entry for each of the assigned devices and you can follow the upload process in the view's schedule Status column. The initial status is Assignment Sent and the final stage should be Executed . After this, status displays the events that are uploaded to the master database.
5. Go to the subnode All Devices and follow the execution of the operational rule for the individual group members.
6. To verify this, go to the Alerts and Events node of Your Device Group , for example, the All Devices group.
   This node displays the list of all events registered by the event log models for the selected device group.
7. From the Model Name drop-down box select the Software Installations option and then click Find .
   The following table will now display all software installation events that were uploaded and are continued to be uploaded.

Now all data is uploaded and ready and the report can be generated.