15.0 Creating a Report Definition

Select Reports > Dynamic Reports

Each report definition includes a set of policy templates and endpoints, as well as the time frame from which to draw the data. To meet your organization’s specific security needs, you can create custom report definitions. For example, you might want a report that shows the compliance status for all endpoints, based on 10 different policy templates.

  1. Select Reports > Dynamic Reports.

  2. In the appropriate category, click Create your own.

    For more information about the report categories, see Types of Dynamic Reports.

  3. Select the endpoints that you want to include, then click Next.

  4. Select the policy templates that you want to use for assessing the assets, then click Next.

  5. Enter a name and description for the report.

    Report Name and Report Description help you more easily find the report in the Assessment Reports list. These values do not affect the name or description of the report definition that you used as the basis for the generated report.

  6. For Time Range, specify the range of time within which you want to gather assessment results associated with the selected endpoints and policy templates.

  7. Click Save definition as, then specify a name and description for the new report definition.

  8. Click Save.

  9. Click Preview.

    If the policy templates have not been run against the endpoints in the specified time frame, then the Web console responds with “No data found.” You can modify the time frame, endpoints, or policy templates. If you make changes, you should create a new report definition with those changes.

  10. (Optional) In the preview, select Change to preview the results for each policy template included in the dynamic report.

  11. (Optional) Modify the report settings and preview again until you are satisfied with the results.

  12. In the Preview, click Save Report.

    The Web console automatically displays the report.

  13. (Conditional) To view the report results at a future time, click Reports > Dynamic Reports, then open the saved report.

For more information about this software product, see the NetIQ Secure Configuration Manager documentation.