How to create custom reports

GFI EventsManager includes a reporting engine with many predefined reports you can customize, run or schedule as you like. The reporting engine also enables you to define new reports with flexible layouts. You can also generate reports on the fly, directly from a view in the Event Browser.

To create custom reports:

1. From Reporting tab > Reports, right-click a root folder/folder/root report and select Create Report.

Creating a root report

2. From the General tab, specify a name and description (optional) for the new root report.

3. Click Add to select a field on which to base the query condition. For the selected field, specify the Field Operator and Field Value. Click OK.

Configuring new root report layout options

4. Click Layout tab and add the column headings that you want to be visible in the report. If you have a saved report template, click Open location to browse and load your template. For more information refer to Defining column headings.

Inserting a chart in a new root report

5. (Optional) Click Chart tab and select Use graphical charts to include graphs in your report.

6. From the Place chart at drop-down menu, specify the location of the chart. Select from:

• Beginning of Report
• End of Report.

7. From Properties > X axis and Y axis, configure the X and Y Axis properties. I.e. select the data represented in the chart.

8. Select Top 10 to view the Top 10 records only.

Configuring the schedule for when the report is generated

9. (Optional) Click Schedule tab and configure schedule settings.

10. Select Send report by email to and click Configure to select the recipients of this report.

Create new report Options

11. Click Options tab and specify the path to where the report generates to in the Target path area.

12. From the Range pattern drop-down menu, select the options described in the table below:

Pattern	Description
All Time	Select All Time to generate the report based on information from all the related logs.
Relative	Generate the report based on events from: Today Yesterday Last 7 Days This Month Last Month.
Day	Specify a single day that you want to base your report on.
Month	Specify a month and year that you want to base your report on.
Date Range	Specify a From and To date to base report information on events collected in the specified time period.

Record limit settings

13. Click Other tab to configure report record limits. Available options are described in the table below:

Option	Description
Split report if it contains more than {X} records	Select the checkbox to enable record limit per report. GFI EventsManager automatically creates a new report for every number of records you specify. Example: if you key in 50, 000 and the report contains 150, 000 records, GFI EventsManager generates three reports.
Max number of records per page	Specify the number of records that are displayed in a single page.
Limit records to	Specify the maximum number of records that are included in the report. Records that exceed the limit are ignored.