Create Report
Choose Create Report. The Create Report wizard appears.
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Procedure
Step 1 |
Enter a name for the report job in the Report Name field. |
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Step 2 |
Click Select a template. |
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Step 3 |
Choose a report template from the drop-down list and click Select. Based on the template you've chosen, provide required values to the fields that appear on the screen. |
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Step 4 |
Click Next to move to the Source & Recurrence step. |
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Step 5 |
Choose the frequency at which the report job should be run. The following table shows the options available and their description.
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Step 6 |
In the Email Report To field, enter an email ID or mailer ID if you want the report in an email. You must configure SMTP settings in Settings > Server Settings > SMTP tab. If the Data service IP address is in private subnet, the static management route for SMTP server must be added in Cisco Nexus Dashboard cluster configuration. |
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Step 7 |
Choose the devices, fabrics, or VSANs in the Select device(s), Select fabric(s), or Select VSAN(s) area.
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Step 8 |
Click Save. A new report and repot definitions are created and appears on the Reports and Report Definitions tab respectively. |
Report Templates
Each report template has some data associated with it. Depending on the features you have enabled in Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller, some of the report templates available are
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Inventory_Report
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Performance_Report
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Switch_Performance_Report
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fabric_cloudsec_oper_status
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fabric_macsec_oper_status
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fabric_nve_vni_counter
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fabric_resources
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sfp_report
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switch_inventory
In addition to the templates listed above, any other templates that have been created by you will also be listed here. For more information on default templates and creating customized templates, refer to Templates. Templates are listed based on the associated tags.
Performance_Report and Switch_Performance_Report are used for performance management reports.