Power Management Summary Report

We will generate this report via the wizard, which is available from everywhere in the console.

1. Select Wizards Report Creation .
    The Report Creation Wizard appears. The left pane of the wizard window appears all available steps of this wizard. 

   Warning

   Note:

   Depending on the selections made in the right window panes, some of these steps will become available/unavailable.

2. Make the following choices in the first wizard window and leave all other values as they are:
   • Enter Summary as the name into the Name box.
   • Enter Power Management Summary as the name into the Report Title box.
   • In the Report Type box select Template-based from the list.

   • In the Report Template box select Power Management Status from the list. 

     Warning

     Note:

     Power management only provides one report which however provides you with several options.

3. Click Next to continue.
    The Options window appears. 

   Warning

   Note:

   In the Options window, the criteria for the report are defined, for example, if it is to be a summary, if it is generated for a specific period of time, for a specific group, and so on For our example we will first generate the basic report, a status summary.

4. Leave all values as they are and click Next to continue.
    The Publication and Mail window appears. 

   Warning

   Note:

   This step allows you to make the generated reports accessible to other associates within your department or company or to send it by mail to specific associates. For this example we will make this a public report and send it to our own e-mail account in PDF format.

5. Enter a name, that is, a title for the report into the Name box, for example, Power Management Summary .
6. Then check the Public Report box.

7. Go down to the second panel and select Add email .
    The Define Mail dialog box appears on the screen. 

   Warning

   Note:

   To specify the recipients as direct recipients, copy recipients and blind copy recipients, you proceed in the same way.

8. To enter recipients click To / CC / BCC and the Select an Address dialog box appears on the screen.
   • To select an administrator or administrator group from the list select the Select from List radio button and then select the following recipient(s). You can specify an administrator group as the recipient, in this case the mail will be sent to all members of this group that have a valid e-mail address entered into their general data tab.
   • Or you can select the Select Manually radio button and enter any valid e-mail address into the following text box. You can also enter more than one address by separating these with a semi-colon, for example, scotty@enterprise.com;kirk@enterprise.com .
9. Then enter Power Management Summary Report as the Subject of the mail.
10. Click OK to confirm the mail and add it to the list.
11. Click Next to go to the Assigned Objects wizard page.InformationIn this step of the wizard the objects on which the report is to be generated are to be defined. In our example we will assign it to our group All Devices for which we generated the power management events.
12. Select Assign Device Group .
     The Assign to Device Group pop-up menu appears.
13. Select the device group All Devices from the window.
14. Click OK to confirm the assignment and close the window.
     The device group will be added to the table of assigned device groups.
15. Click Next to go to the Schedule wizard page.InformationThe last step in the wizard is the definition of its generation schedule. Our first report we will generate immediately to be able to examine it right away:
16. Select the Immediately radio button in the Execution Date panel.
17. Then check the Immediately generate the report box at the bottom of the window.
18. Click Finish to confirm the new report and generate it.
     The Confirmation dialog box appears, which allows you to move the focus of the console to the newly created report.
19. Click Yes to do so.