Stay On Top of Problems and Opportunities with Reports

Reporting plays a role in almost every area of IT. LANDesk Management Suite automates many aspects of reporting. By scheduling reports, information can be saved on a shared directory in several formats (such as CSV or PDF) or sent directly to a user's inbox. Reports can be produced in a variety of formats, such as PDF, HTML, spreadsheet and document files, or XML format.

The Reports tool can be used to generate a wide variety of specialized reports that provide critical information about the devices on your network. The tool takes advantage of the robust LANDesk Management Suite inventory scanning utility, which collects and organizes hardware and software data, in order to produce useful, informative, and up-to-date reports. You can schedule reports to be published and saved to a secure file share location on the core server, where anyone with proper login credentials can access and view the reports. You can also schedule the published reports to be e-mailed to designated recipients.

Several types of reports are available. You can schedule reports so they run at an interval you specify and you can also e-mail reports directly to users:

• Standard (predefined) reports—Defines return codes to improve application installation accuracy.
• Custom reports—Custom reports that define a unique set of information to generate a report; you can also customize any of the standard reports. The predefined or custom parameters are run and a report is generated containing the relevant data, which can be viewed from the console.
• One-click (ad-hoc) reports—One-click reports are available from various areas of LANDesk Management Suite, which includes the ability to create a report based on a query.

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