Scheduled Report Emailing

It's often necessary to send reports by e-mail. For example, company executives might want to receive IT equipment failure statistics every month. The AggreGate administrator may send the report by e-mail manually, but it would be much more effective to schedule periodic report emailing for automatic execution using AggreGate Server job scheduler. This tutorial explains how to create a scheduled task that performs report emailing.

1. Adding a Scheduled Job

To create a new scheduled task, find your report node in System Tree (). Drag and drop it on the Scheduled Jobs node ():

Select Send Report by E-mail from the list of actions that may be scheduled:

Click OK. Now define the properties for the new scheduler job. Enter the job name and description (for example, disk_summary_mailer and Disk Summary Emailing):

Click in Parameters line, and then click in Send Report by E-mail line to open report emailing parameters. Enter e-mail recipients and select report format:

Click OK to create new scheduled job. It's properties will open in a new dockable window.

2. Defining The Schedule

It's time to add job triggers that will start it at certain time. In the job properties window, open Advanced Schedule tab (). Click on Add Row button () to add new trigger:

Let's configure the job to run every Monday at 10:00 AM. To do that, we need to switch the trigger from working on certain days of month to certain days of week. First, click in Day of Month field. Day-by-day monthly schedule will open in a new window. Select Never for the first day, right-click in the same cell and select Fill Column With Cell Value from context menu:

Click OK to close the dialog. Now click in Day Of Week field. In the newly opened dialog, change Option for Monday to Always:

Click OK to apply changes. The last action is changing Time parameter of job trigger to 10:00:00:

When done, click on Save Properties (). Your scheduled job is ready now and you may expect the report to be sent next Monday.