How do I set up an automated report of alerts for the previous day?

You can use the Automated Reports facility of IBM® Sterling Control Center Monitor to report things such as the alerts from a previous day.

The basic steps to setting up an automated report that lists all the alerts for the previous day are:

  • Define an Alerts report and save it.
  • Define a report schedule and save it.
  • Automate the Alerts report.

Here are the specific steps:

  1. Click Tools > Reports > Define/Run.
  2. Add a report, select System as the Report Category and Alerts Report as the Report Type.
  3. Select the filter criteria as illustrated in the following table. This criteria narrows the alerts to yesterday's only. This step is the key step in this process.
    Key Operator Value
    Alert Date/Time Less than Today 00:00:00 America/Chicago
    Alert Date/Time Greater than Yesterday 00:00:00 America/Chicago
  4. Run the report and save it.
  5. Define a report schedule by which to run the report (Tools > Reports > Define Schedule); for example: Daily at 6:00 a.m. Specify the schedule name, choose a calendar (for this example, Daily with a time of 6:00 a.m.), and save the schedule.
  6. Add a new automated report (Tools > Reports > Automate).
  7. Give the new automated report a name and select the report you defined in step 1 through step 4.
  8. Give the automated report the schedule you defined in step 5.
  9. Select an email list of recipients to send the mail to.
  10. Select other parameters, including the report file format, the file extension, a From address and an email Subject line, and then save the report. The report is generated daily at the time you specified and sent to the list of addressees you specified.