Behavior of Time Frame Settings in Custom Report for Panorama 5.x

Overview

This document describes the scheduling time frames of custom reports and their expected behavior. Custom reports are located under Monitor > Manage Custom Reports.

Details

Enabling the scheduling on reports by checking the "Scheduled" checkbox (see screenshot below). Once enabled, the Time Frame options are available, as shown:

Time Frame Options

Last Calendar Day

• Creates an xml file every calendar day
• A new report will be available daily which contains the data for the Last Calendar Day
    86400s-ending-20130624.xml   2013/06/24 23:00:09        3.4K
    86400s-ending-20130625.xml   2013/06/25 23:00:05        3.4K

Last 7 Days

• Creates an xml file for the last 7 days
• A new report will be available daily which contains the data for the Last 7 Days
    604800s-ending-20130629.xml   2013/06/29 23:00:14        2.0K
    604800s-ending-20130630.xml   2013/06/30 23:00:11        2.0K
    <cut for brevity>
    604800s-ending-20130706.xml   2013/07/06 23:00:00        1.6K
    604800s-ending-20130707.xml   2013/07/07 23:00:01        1.6K

Last 7 Calendar Days

• Creates an xml file every Week of the Month
• A new report will be available weekly which contains the data for the Last 7 Calendar Days
    604800s-ending-20130518.xml   2013/05/18 23:00:00        4.1K
    604800s-ending-20130525.xml   2013/05/25 23:00:00        4.0K

Last Calendar Week

• Creates an xml file every Week of the Month
• A new report will be available weekly which contains the data for the Last Calendar Week
    604800s-ending-20130629.xml   2013/06/29 23:00:14        4.0K
    604800s-ending-20130706.xml   2013/07/06 23:00:00        4.1K

Last 30Days

• Creates an xml file every Day of the Month
• A new report will be available daily which contains the data for the Last 30Days
    2592000s-ending-20130515.xml   2013/05/14 23:00:00        1.0K
    2592000s-ending-20130516.xml   2013/05/15 23:00:06        1.0K
    <cut for brevity>
    2592000s-ending-20130706.xml   2013/07/05 23:00:03        1.0K
    2592000s-ending-20130707.xml   2013/07/06 23:00:00        1.0K

Last Calendar Month

• Creates an xml file every Last Calendar Day of the Month
• A new report will be available only after the last day of the month which contains the data for the Last Calendar Month
    2591999s-ending-20130630.xml   2013/06/30 23:00:11        0.7K
    2678399s-ending-20130731.xml   2013/07/31 23:00:11        0.7K

Reading the Report Filename

The following is an example of a report filename: 2678399s-ending-20130731.xml

• The first part of the filename (ex. 2678399s) indicates the number of seconds covered in the report.
• The last part of the filename (ex. ending-20130731) indicates the 'Date+1' of when the file will be available for report generation.

owner: jlunario