Emailing And Exporting Reports; Emailing Reports In General Email Applications; Emailing Reports To Smarthost; Exporting Reports To Xml Or Csv - Dell PowerConnect W-Airwave User Manual

Emailing and Exporting Reports

This section describes three ways in which distribute reports from AirWave:

Emailing Reports in General Email Applications

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Emailing Reports to Smarthost

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Exporting Reports to XML or CSV

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Emailing Reports in General Email Applications
Perform these steps to set up email distribution of reports in AirWave:
All reports contain a link to export the report to an XML file and a text box where you may specify email
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addresses, separated by commas, to which reports are sent.
Select Email This Report to email the report to the address specified in the text box above the button.
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Additional information about email-based report generation is described in
in "Emailing Reports to Smarthost" on
Emailing Reports to Smarthost
AirWave uses Postfix to deliver alerts and reports via email, because it provides a high level of security and locally
queues email until delivery. If AirWave sits behind a firewall, which prevents it from sending email directly to the
specified recipient, use the following procedure to forward email to a smarthost.
1. Add the following line to
relayhost = [mail.example.com]
Where:
2. Run
3. Send a test message to an email address.
Mail -v xxx@xxx.com
Subject: test mail
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CC:
4. Press Enter.
5. Check the mail log to ensure mail was sent by running this command:
tail -f /var/log/maillog
Exporting Reports to XML or CSV
AirWave allows you to export individual reports in XML (xhtml) or CSV. You can also export all reports at once
and a zip file will be generated with all of the files in CSV format included. These files may be read by an HTML
browser or opened in Excel. The CSV files can be opened in any text editor.
NOTE: This method of exporting files supports graphics and links, and prevents Missing File C:\filename.css error messages.

Transferring Reports Using FTP

Once reports are generated, you can also copy them to any ftp accessible destination using a sample script. For
more information, contact Dell support at support.dell.com.
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/etc/postfix/main.cf
is the IP address or hostname of your smarthost.
mail.example.com
service postfix restart
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