You can schedule reports to run on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. Scheduled reports can be
configured to include data for the previous day, previous seven days, previous month, previous calendar
day (up to 250), previous calendar month (up to 12). Alternatively, you can include data for a custom
number of days (from 2 days to 100 days) or a custom number of months (from 2 months to 12 months).

Regardless of when you run a report, the data is returned from the previous time interval (hour, day,
week, or month). For example, if you schedule a daily report to run at 1AM, the report will contain data
from the previous day, midnight to midnight (00:00 to 23:59).

The Security Management appliance retains the most recent reports that it generates — up to 1000 total
versions for all reports. You can define as many recipients for reports as you want, including zero
recipients. If you do not specify an email recipient, the system will still archive the reports. If you need
to send the reports to a large number of addresses, however, you may want to create a mailing list instead
of listing the recipients individually.

By default, the appliance archives the twelve most recent reports of each scheduled report. Reports are
stored in the /periodic_reports directory of the appliance. (See

Appendix A, “IP Interfaces and

Accessing the Appliance”

for more information.)

Adding Scheduled Reports

Procedure

Step 1

On the Security Management appliance, choose Web > Reporting > Scheduled Reports.

Step 2

Click Add Scheduled Report.

Step 3

From drop-down menu next to Type, choose your report type.

Step 4

In the Title field, type the title of your report.

To avoid creating multiple reports with the same name, we recommend using a descriptive title.

Step 5

Choose the time range for the report from the Time Range drop-down menu.