For every report, there are some general options available. These are described here.
Figure 1: General Options
Save and Display Options
Open in Reportviewer after creation?
This option let's you review the report right after it has been created.
Export into a File after creation?
Here you can specify a file type as which the report can be saved. This option is necessary if you want to store and/or forward the reports. The follwing file-types are available:
- Chrystal Report (*.rpt)
- Excel (*.xls)
- HTML (*.html)
- PDF (*.pdf)
- Rich Text (*.rtf)
- Word (*.doc)
- Text (*.txt)
Open generated Report File after creation?
This option is only available if you choose to store the report into a file. If this option is selected, the created file will be opened in the corresponding application for immediate review.
Report Related
Saved Reportname
With this field you can specify the display name of your custom report.
Comments for this Report
Here you can provide detailed information about the settings of the report or any notificable Information that seems necessary. This will help you a lot in keeping track of which report is for which reason.
Server Options
In this part of the screen, all groups and hosts are available in a treeview. You can specify here the machines of which the EventLog should be taken for creating this custom report. In front of every host or group name there is a checkbox. If the box is checked, that means that the Events of this machine will be added into this report.
Select All
If this option is marked, then all machines in the list will have their EventLogs reviewed. The treeview will be greyed out and you cannot change the marker in the checkboxes.
Select Servers
By choosing this option, you can use the treeview to mark the hosts. By clicking the "Select All"-button, all hosts will be selected and by clicking the "Unselect All"-button all checkboxes will be blanked.