Procedure to run the report

Before you begin

When the Report Catalog opens, find your new report in the Trends category. To run the report from the Report Catalog, select it and click Run.

Steps

  1. The Start date and End date are set to today’s date so, since you wanted to look at trend for the current month, set the Start date to the first day of the month.
  2. If you have Acrobat Reader installed, don’t change the Output format. Otherwise, select a format you can use. (PDF is best suited for creating a readable Trend report.)
  3. Select Schedule the report to run in the background and enter your email address in the Recipient email addresses field.
  4. Also enter your email address in the Send failure notification to field to receive a message if the report can’t run.
  5. Click Run. The Job Queue window opens, showing the scheduled job for your new report.

    When the Status column shows that the job is complete, the report email message is sent to all specified recipients. Unless the file is larger than the mail server limits allow, a copy of the report is attached. There message also includes a link to the report. (To use the link, there must be a network connection between your machine and the management server machine.)

Next steps

You can also view this and other scheduled reports on the Review Reports page.

Click the report name to open and view the report.

Here is the line chart created by the new report and executed against a small data sample.

This line chart is followed by a table of details indicating the actual numbers that are charted. The final page of the report is a bar chart showing the same values.

You can use this information to run additional reports to determine the source of the spike in Spyware requests, and assess whether there is any threat to your network.