Reports in NetBox 3Reports in NetBox 3

John L. Moss

OverviewOverview

As-built reports Run for all nodes or a selected node Print and place a copy in the NetBox enclosure Print to PDF for electronic records

Two types of custom report History – a list of events People – a list of person records

Two types of display for custom reports Traditional text display Flex grid display

As-built reportsAs-built reports

Reports > Configuration > As-built

As-built report displayAs-built report display

Displays in a separate window

Custom report table of contentsCustom report table of contents

Results show up in Results show up in a new windowa new window

• This is the flex grid display• Drag and drop any column• Click to sort column data• Buttons:

• Print to printer or PDF• Copy for pasting into Excel, e.g.• Edit to modify the report

Creating and Creating and editing a reportediting a report

• Report fields• Name• Title – on all pages• Description – for TOC• Setup tabs

• Setup tabs• Fields that display in the report• Date/time for selecting events• People filter• Location filter• Event filter• Sort order• Runtime prompt page• Output page

• By default:• Not selected = everything• Output as grid• Order chronologically

Date and time Date and time selection can be selection can be relative or absoluterelative or absolute

• Relative date and time• Many options• Useful for “canned” reports

• Absolute date and time• Useful for investigating incidents• Pick from calendar

• Blended relative and absolute• Mix and match as needed

People filterPeople filter

• Used to refine people selection• Many relational choices• No quote marks needed

Location filterLocation filter

• Several ways to filter by location• Select ONLY ONE for a report

Event filtersEvent filters

• Two categories• User-defined• System-defined

• Two criteria• Individual events• Event groups

• Selections are OR’ed within a list• Selecting one disables the others

Sort ordering of Sort ordering of eventsevents

• Cascading levels• Ascending or descending sorts

Runtime PromptingRuntime Prompting

• Lets you generalize reports• Multiple prompts, in order

• Select field• Select prompt text

• Two prompting modes• List of values• Free-form entry field

Custom person Custom person reportreport

• Similar to custom history reports• Select columns first• People filter is similar to history• Runtime prompts similar as well• Output tab also similar

Selection by access Selection by access levellevel

• Access level filter• Selections are AND’ed

Sort orderSort order

• More valuable than in event reports• Hierarchical data sorts

• By department• … and last name within department

• Ascending or descending