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Reports and Alerts is one of nine sections of the overall Admin Guide for Mobile Device Manager. The following is the complete list of MDM Admin Guide components:
• MDM Overview and Setup • Device Management • Profile Management • Geofencing • Application Management • Content Management • Email Management • Telecom Management • Reports and Alerts
REPORTS AND ALERTS
REPORTS
MDM has extensive reporting capabilities that provide administrators with actionable, result-‐driven statistics about their device fleets. IT administrators can leverage these pre-‐defined reports or create custom reports based on specific devices, User Groups, date ranges, or file preferences. In addition, the administrator can schedule any of these reports for automated distribution to a group of users and recipients on either a defined schedule or a recurring basis. These features are all centralized within the Web Console. To access the Reports page:
• Navigate to Reports & Alerts ► Reports.
From here, there are several key pieces of functionality that administrators can use to leverage reporting capabilities:
Generating Custom Reports
Administrators can create custom reports on the fly through Web Console. To generate a custom report:
1. Navigate to the Reports page at Reports & Alerts ► Reports.
2. Select a pre-‐defined report template from the list and then click the Actions icon on the right and then click View.
3. Specify all of the report parameters.
Required fields are indicated with a red mark. 4. Select View Report.
Adding a Report to My Reports
Adding a report to My Reports allows administrators to “bookmark” popular reports that they find particularly useful.
To add a report to My Reports:
1. Navigate to the Reports page at Reports & Alerts ► Reports. 2. Select a pre-‐defined report template from the list.
3. Click the Actions icon on the right. 4. Click the [Add to My Reports] button.
From now on the report will be accessible from the My Reports View on the left side of the
Reports page for quick access.
Creating Report Subscriptions
Report subscriptions can be used to send custom generated reports to specific recipients at a scheduled occurrence.
5. Complete the Report Subscriptions Form with all required information.
• General Information – The name of the subscription, the email subject, etc. • Report Parameters – The parameters defining the scope and options of the report. • Distribution List – The recipients who will receive the custom report whenever the
subscription is executed.
• Execution Schedule – The time and schedule at which the custom report is generated. 6. Click [Save].
Additional Reporting Tools
There are also several other additional tools that help administrators utilize MDM reporting capabilities: • Search Assistance Tools – The Report Category drop-‐down and Search Box at the top of the
Reports page make finding particular reports very simple.
• Report Samples Tool – To view a sample output from a particular report, click the Actions icon on the right and then click the [Sample] button.
• Report Export Tool – To export a report in one of several formats, use the Export Bar on a custom generated report.
ALERTS
Alerts provide administrators with the ability to receive immediate notifications when specific events occur across the managed smart device fleet. They are comprised of two components:
• A Creation Policy that describes the criteria that must be met to trigger the alert
• A Routing Policy that describes the devices being monitored, when the alert will be sent, and who will receive it.
Creation Policies
In order to create a new creation policy:
1. Navigate to Reports & Alerts ► Alert Setup ► Creation Policy. From here, a list of all available creation policies can be seen.
2. If any policies are similar to the policy that needs to be created, try editing the policy by selecting the Edit icon on the left of the row.
3. Select Add Alert Creation Policy to open the Alert Creation Policy Form.
4. Enter all required information.
• Description – The name of the creation policy that will be displayed in the Web Console. • Resource – The type of resource that is going to be monitored.
o Select Device to monitor the smart device fleet.
• Attribute – The parameter that will be used to determine whether the alert should go off or not.
• Comparison Operator – The comparison operator to test whether the attribute will set off an alert.
• Value – The value that will set off the alert when (Attribute) <Comparison Operator>
(Value) = True.
• Duration – The duration that the alert will last before stopping. 5. Click [Save] to complete the process.
Routing Policies
In order to create a routing policy:
1. Navigate to Reports & Alerts ► Alert Setup ► Routing Policy.
2. Select Add Alert Routing Policy to open the Alert Routing Policy Form.
3. Fill out the form on the Criteria tab.
• Creation Policy – The creation policy that will trigger this alert.
• Location Group – The location group that contains the devices that are being monitored for the creation policy criteria.
• Location – The location that contains the devices that are being monitored for the creation policy criteria. The default is Any.
• Device – Any specific devices that are being monitored for this creation policy. The default is Any.
• Sample Time and Sample Days – The date and time in which this policy is tested on the selected devices
• Severity & Priority – Metrics to organize alerts in terms of priority and several for administrative purposes.
• Consolidation Window – The period of time in which only one alert will occur from multiple triggers of the same creation policy. All alerts that occur within the consolidation window of one another, and stem from the same creation and routing policy, are consolidated into a single alert.
4. Select the Preferences tab to configure the recipients of these alerts:
• User Alerting – Select an administrative user or users to receive this alert. • Role Alerting – Select a location group and subsequent role to receive this alert.
o To add additional roles, use the [Add Role] button. 5. Click [Save] to complete this process.
VIEWING ALERTS
Once alerts have been created, they can be viewed by navigating to Reports & Alerts ► Search Alerts. • My Alerts – View alerts by user or role that received the alert.
You can also view alerts that were triggered by a particular device on the Device Details page by selecting System Activity ► Alerts.
KEEP IN MIND...
To enable the highest level of control and security over distribution of report information across the enterprise, edit role-‐based access to reports by navigating to Users ► User Accounts ► Add Role.
• Report Access is enabled or disabled by checking the boxes under Resource Categories.
OVERVIEW OF SYSLOG
Syslog is a client\server protocol used to integrate the event log data from Web Console on a separate server in a reliable and secure way. Syslog is used in MDM for logging and storing event logs that have occurred on Web Console and on managed devices. Syslog protocol is originally written on BSD Unix and the messages are sent using UDP/TCP protocol. The two major reasons for having a centralized Syslog server:
• For Security — When an administrator wants to keep some of the event logs safely off-‐site in a secure location.
• For Convenience — In case of crashed server, the administrator can check the kernel error logs on the centralized Syslog server. The Syslog pattern between various dates over an extended
Integrating Syslog
The administrator can configure Syslog integration on the Syslog settings page by navigating to
Configuration ► System Settings ► Admin ► Syslog.
1. Enter information in all the fields. Required fields have a red asterisk (“*”).
• Server URL – Enter the Syslog server URL to store event logs.
• Protocol – Enter the protocol type for MDM console and the Syslog server to communicate, either UDP or TCP.
• Port – Enter the destination port number the MDM console wants to send Syslog data to the Syslog server. When sending messages using UDP, the destination port is usually 514 and for TCP, the destination port is usually 1468. The port number is 514 by default.
• Syslog Facility – Syslog facility lists the type of messages that are to be sent to the server. Select a Syslog facility from the drop-‐down list. Some Syslog accepts messages only from certain facilities.
• Event Types Logged
o Enable Console check box – To send console events. o Enable Device check box – To send device events.
• Message Tag – Enter a message tag to help Syslog server to identify where the message came from.
• Message Content – Enter what the message should include.
o Include lookup value helper control with: {EventType}, {Event}, {User}, {EventSource}, {EventModule}, {EventCategory}, {EventData}
The time frequency limit is set using the MDM Scheduler by navigating to Configuration ► System
Settings ► Device ► General ► Scheduler. The Scheduler has a built-‐in task called Syslog Task, where
the time frequency is set. The administrator has permission to edit the Syslog Task only at the Global level.
1. Click [Edit].
The Syslog Task page displays (see below). 2. Enter information in the required fields.
• Recurrence Type – Select a recurrence type and the corresponding frequency to send Syslog data to the Syslog server. The following recurrence types are available:
o Daily o Weekly o Monthly
