How to get an Email Report every Hour?

Created 2005-08-03 by Timm Herget

What are the settings that I would have to make that I get an email report from MoniLog every hour, from the last one hour?

There are a few things that have to be set in order to get such a hourly emailreport:

1. Create a new Profile

First you should create a new profile. To do so, switch to the profiles tab if you are not allready there. Then click on "New Profile":

Figure 1: creating a new profile

2. Rename the new Profile

Now, type the name you want for the newly created profile. In our case we name it "08 AM" because it will contain the report settings for the 8am report:

Figure 2: renaming new profile

3. Edit the new Profile

Now, type your "Reports Location" in the pertinent field and check all four checkboxes. By checking the "Enable Email delivery" and "Enable Schedule" checkboxes, two new options will appear/awake from their "greyed-out-sleep":

Figure 3: editing the new profile

4. Report Options

Please click on "Report Options", a new popup will appear. Check "From the last X hours" and type "1", for one hour to report, into the "X Hours" field. Also check "Success Audit" and "Information" checkboxes for a full report. Click OK:

Figure 4: configuring report options

5. Email Options

Click on "Email Options" and type in your mailserver information, sender- and recipient mailaddresses and the URL of the webserver, where you store your reports. Let the "Emailtype" at default settings and click OK:

Figure 5: configuring email options

6. Scheduled Options

Open up the configuration-menu for schedule, through clicking on "Scheduled Options". Here check all days on which you want to receive reports and set the time to the time you want to receive the first report at a day (in our case: monday-friday and time 8 AM). Click OK and then Apply on the "Edit Profile" window. Do not forget to click "Apply" or all your settings will be discarded:

Figure 6: configuring schedule

7. Create the next Profile

Now, create the next profile, for the next hour (in our case 9 AM):

Figure 7: next profile

8. Configuring new Profile

Again, set the "Reports Location" and check all 4 checkboxes:

Figure 8: configuring new profile #2

9. Report Options

Click on "Report Options" and again select "From last X Hours" and as value "1". Also check "Success Audit" and "Information" checkboxes. Click OK:

Figure 9: report options #2

10. Email Options

Click on "Email Options" and select "08 AM" from the dropdown list at the end of the popup. Click on "Copy Settings from" so that it has the same delivery options as the last profile and apply the settings through clicking OK:

Figure 10: email options #2

11. Scheduled Options

Open up the "Scheduled Options" and again select all weekdays you want. Set the time one hour higher (in our case 9 AM) and click OK then Apply:

Figure 11: configuring schedule #2

12. Create all Profiles

Repeat Step 7 to 11 until you are done and have a profile for every hour u want to receive a report via email.

Figure 12: all profiles

With the above mentioned settings, Monilog will successfully send a hourly report of all the events logged.
If something is not clear or if you have any further questions on this scenario, please do not hesitate to contact us at support@adiscon.com