Viewing a report

There are several ways to view a report, including your dashboard and UI search.

You can view a report in several ways:

If you have saved the report to a dashboard, open the dashboard to view the report.
You can add the report to a dashboard. Open the dashboard and click Add Report, then choose the report from the list.
Some reports are listed in categories in the Reports lifecycle.
Some reports are listed under the lifecycle to which they are most relevant.
You can use the user interface (UI) search function to find the report. On the banner, choose User Interface from the drop-down list next to the Search box. Enter the name of the report into the Search box. Results begin to appear after you type a few characters. Choose the report from the list of results.

The following choices (with icons) permit editing and configuring of the report:

Edit the query for this report
Ad-hoc process for Run Once Now - Use this to invoke a call to GuardAPI commands.
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Configure report columns
Configure runtime parameters - A run-time parameter provides a value to be used in a query condition. There is a default set of run-time parameters for all queries, and any number of run-time parameters can be defined in the query that is used by the report.
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You can hide columns from view. Click the columns icon and clear the check boxes for the columns that you want to hide.

You can sort report data by the contents of any column. Click the title of the column on which you want to sort. To reverse the order, click the title again. Sorting is always performed on the actual data values, ignoring any aliases that are defined.

You can print a report while you are viewing it. Click Export > Full printable report to open a printable copy of the report in a new tab. Click the printer icon on the new tab to print the report. You can also print a report by exporting it to a PDF file and printing the PDF file.

Note: For an instance where the PDF text is too small to read, the PDF report has a physical limit on how much it can expand horizontally given how wide the page is. Since each line of the PDF report has to fit on one line, the typeface size changes to fit the data, and may force a very small typeface size in order to display all the data.

Graphical reports can be customized by clicking the Customize Chart icon. The choices include converting the data to a line chart, changing the X-axis and Y-axis orientation, converting the report to a pie chart or a stacked column chart.

When viewing reports that display Oracle information, occasionally the ? question mark character is used to inform the viewer that the login information was not available. Again when viewing reports that display Oracle information, the appearance of the number -1 signifies that an unknown number of records are affected. All Oracle sessions are recorded, even with missed logins.

The OS user does not appear in reports if a Linux system or a Windows system using remote connections did not send the OS user with the login packet. For Linux local connections, UID chain can be used to identify the user. See which systems support UID chains in Choosing your S-TAP setup.