Custom reports

Control Center provides several out of the box reports that can be run on demand and schedule basis. These out of the box reports are generated using Jasper Reports Library. You can create your own Jasper report and use it within Control Center.

High level steps to create and use custom report

Following are the phases of custom report creation:
  1. Create a report using Jasper Reports Studio. This step involves the following activities
    • Data source creation (one-time activity)
    • Report creation
    • Template design
    • Previewing the report
  2. Copy the report definition to <<CCInstalledLocation>>conf\reports\custom directory.
  3. Create an instance of custom report from the web console.
  4. Run the custom report instance either from classic console or web console.

Considerations while creating custom reports

  • All the filter criteria needed for the report must be part of the SQL used for the report. In other words, no additional criteria can be specified in Control Center while running the reports.
  • For custom reports, format of the value entered in the 'Date/Time/Date & Time' input must match the database column's date/time format.
  • In case of clustered Control Center instance, the custom report must be copied to all the instances.