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Reports in NetBox 3Reports in NetBox 3
John L. Moss
OverviewOverview
As-built reports Run for all nodes or a selected node Print and place a copy in the NetBox enclosure Print to PDF for electronic records
Two types of custom report History – a list of events People – a list of person records
Two types of display for custom reports Traditional text display Flex grid display
As-built reportsAs-built reports
Reports > Configuration > As-built
As-built report displayAs-built report display
Displays in a separate window
Custom report table of contentsCustom report table of contents
Results show up in Results show up in a new windowa new window
• This is the flex grid display• Drag and drop any column• Click to sort column data• Buttons:
• Print to printer or PDF• Copy for pasting into Excel, e.g.• Edit to modify the report
Creating and Creating and editing a reportediting a report
• Report fields• Name• Title – on all pages• Description – for TOC• Setup tabs
• Setup tabs• Fields that display in the report• Date/time for selecting events• People filter• Location filter• Event filter• Sort order• Runtime prompt page• Output page
• By default:• Not selected = everything• Output as grid• Order chronologically
Date and time Date and time selection can be selection can be relative or absoluterelative or absolute
• Relative date and time• Many options• Useful for “canned” reports
• Absolute date and time• Useful for investigating incidents• Pick from calendar
• Blended relative and absolute• Mix and match as needed
People filterPeople filter
• Used to refine people selection• Many relational choices• No quote marks needed
Location filterLocation filter
• Several ways to filter by location• Select ONLY ONE for a report
Event filtersEvent filters
• Two categories• User-defined• System-defined
• Two criteria• Individual events• Event groups
• Selections are OR’ed within a list• Selecting one disables the others
Sort ordering of Sort ordering of eventsevents
• Cascading levels• Ascending or descending sorts
Runtime PromptingRuntime Prompting
• Lets you generalize reports• Multiple prompts, in order
• Select field• Select prompt text
• Two prompting modes• List of values• Free-form entry field
Custom person Custom person reportreport
• Similar to custom history reports• Select columns first• People filter is similar to history• Runtime prompts similar as well• Output tab also similar
Selection by access Selection by access levellevel
• Access level filter• Selections are AND’ed
Sort orderSort order
• More valuable than in event reports• Hierarchical data sorts
• By department• … and last name within department
• Ascending or descending