The controls in this feature enable you to specify either:

  • An on-demand report that is prepared immediately and that you can then either download locally or email to specific recipients
  • A scheduled report that is run periodically at a specified interval and then emailed to specific recipients
  • An Availability PDF report for selected devices
Note: Note that if you want to email a report, the SMTP Settings (see the section below) must be provided beforehand.

To create an on-demand report, perform the following steps:

  1. Select the Report Now radio button (selected by default).
  2. Use the Report Date controls to specify the time period for the report.

  3. Use the check boxes in the Devices list to select the devices that will appear in the report. You can select All Networks if you want to include all networks. If you select a network node, all the devices in that network are included.
    Note: Hovering over a device name in the Create Report section displays the full nickname for the device.

  4. Do one of the following:
  • To download the report as a PDF file, click Download Report.
  • To email the report, check that the SMTP Settings are set, type a list of email addresses separated by semicolons (;) into the Email Address List, and click Email Report. A popup is displayed and a system message is logged indicating whether or not the email was sent successfully.

To schedule a report for some time in the future, perform the following steps:

  1. Select the Schedule Report radio button.
  2. Select the Report Type from the drop-down list. This can be daily, weekly or monthly. The start time and date of the report is set to 00:00:00 on the next full day, week, or month. For example, if today is Wednesday and you select Weekly, the report’s first run will be on the following Monday at 00:00:00.
  3. Use the check boxes in the Device list to select the devices that appear in the report. To select all networks, select the All Networks check box. If you select a network node, all the devices in that network are included.
  4. Type a list of email addresses separated by semicolons (;) into the Email Address List.
  5. Click Create Schedule. A notification appears informing you that you successfully created the scheduled report.

The name of the report is a Load Balancer Assessment report and it contains the following graphs:

  • Network Traffic (Incoming & Outgoing)
  • Number of Connections
  • SSL Transaction Per Second

    To create an Availability report, perform the following steps:

    The diagrams above show examples of the different reports. The table under the graph provides more details depending on the report.

  1. Select Availability as the Report type then select either Summary or Detail.
  • Summary is the default report type
  • Detail provides more information
  1. Select the devices you want to run the report for.
  2. To send the report by email, type an email address in the Email Address List field and click Email Report.
  3. To download the report, click Download Report.

Summary Report

The Summary report displays a tabulated picture of each device's availability. It contains the following columns:

  • Device Name: Displays the device nickname. If there is no nickname, a dash is displayed instead.
  • Device IP Address:Port: Displays the IP address and the port number of each device.
  • Device Type: Lists the types of devices.
  • Average Availability:
    • Device: Displays the average percent of time that the device was working.
    • Service: Displays the average percent of time that the Service was working. This value cannot be greater than the device value because it is possible that some of the services were down.
    • Real Server: Displays the average percent of time that the Real Server was working.
  • Status at Time of Report: Indicates if the device was up or down at the time the report was run.
Note: If a device is not supported, it appears as 0% in the table.

Detail Report

The Detail report is broken down into two sections; the Device Availability Report and the Service Availability Summary Report.

The Device Availability Report displays the total downtime and total uptime of each device you run the report for. It also contains a table that displays the uptime and downtime in alternate rows including the specific date and time from when the device was working until the date and time the device went down. The next row then displays the same information for when the device was down and so on. It also displays this time period in total minutes and then breaks it down into days, hours, and minutes.

Note: You can also display the same data for sub-Virtual Services and third-party devices.