You can generate a dynamic report at any time. However, before getting started, you might want to run policy templates associated with your security standards. A dynamic report can only display data for policy templates that have been run against the selected endpoints within the specified time frame. If the policy templates within the report have not been run against the specified endpoints, the Web console cannot display the report or the report will have incomplete data.
When you generate a dynamic report, you can save the configuration as a report definition. Each report definition contains a set of policy templates and endpoints associated with a particular need, such as PCI compliance. You also set the time frame from which you want to draw the data. For example, you want a snapshot of the compliance status for endpoints in the Finance department within the last 30 days, based on 10 different policy templates.
Once you create report definitions, console users can generate reports from the definition. They specify a name and description for their report without affecting the report definition.
For more information, see the Help in the Web console.