Schedule a new status report task to send the detection statistics to a specific email address or distribution list, at convenient time intervals.
Task
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Click
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Status Reports page appears.
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Click
New Report. The
Report page appears.
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From
When to report tab, specify when you want the status report task to run. The available options are:
• | Not scheduled — Select this if you have not decided on when to perform the status report task or disable the schedule for an existing status report task.
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• | Once — Specify the date and time to schedule a status report task once.
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• | Hours — Select this to schedule the task based on hours, if you have to execute the status report task for more than once in a day. For example, let's consider that the current time is 14:00 hours and you have to create a report task that satisfies these conditions:
◦ | The status report task must start exactly at 14:30 hours
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◦ | The status report task must occur twice a day
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To achieve this, specify
12 for hours and
30 for minutes.
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• | Days — Select this to schedule the task based on how often the status report task must occur in a week. For example, if you want the status report task to occur once in three days, specify
3 under
day(s) and select the time when the task should start.
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• | Weeks — Select this to schedule the task based on how often the status report task must occur in a month. For example, if you want the status report task to occur bi-weekly, specify
2 under
week(s), select the days and time when the task should start.
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• | Months — Select this to schedule the task based on how often the status report task must occur in a year. For example, if you want the status report task to occur on every second Saturday of each month, select
second from
On the drop-down list,
Saturday from
of drop-down list, then select all the months and time when the task should start.
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Stop task after it has run for <n>
hour(s) <n>
minute(s), to stop a status report task if it exceeds the specified hours.
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Click
Next. The
Report Settings page appears. The available options are:
Option definitions
Option
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Definition
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Recipient Email
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Specify the recipient email address or SMTP address of the distribution list. In most cases, this should be the Exchange administrator's email address.
| By default, the email address from
is used as the recipient email address.
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Subject line for report
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Specify a meaningful subject line for the email. For example, if you want a daily status report in HTML format, specify
MSME Daily Status Report (HTML).
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Number of Rows
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Specify the number of rows (n) to be displayed in the status report email. Each row in the status report displays the total number of detections for a particular day. The report contains the detection count for the last (n) days, excluding the day when the status report is triggered. For example: If you specify
1, the status report will contain one row displaying detections for yesterday.
| You can specify a maximum value of 365.
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Type of Report
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Specify the format of the status report, which is sent to the recipient. The available options are:
• | CSV — Select this if you want the status report sent to the recipient in Comma Separated Value format as a
.csv file attachment.
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• | HTML— Select this if you want the status report sent to the recipient in HTML format as a .html file attachment or appear in the email message body.
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Click
Next. The
Please enter a task name page appears.
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Specify a meaningful status report task name, based on the schedule and format you selected in the previous pages. For example, if you are creating a weekly status report task that provides detection statistics for weekdays in HTML format, specify the task name as
Weekly Status Report (HTML).
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Click
Finish, then
Apply.
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By performing these steps, you have successfully created a new status report task.