#12.10. Scheduling Reports
By default, all reports in Zenoss run on demand and present information the moment you run the report. To schedule reports, you can use the reportmail tool. This allows you to pick a specific report and have its output emailed to a list of recipients on a pre-determined schedule. reportmail is a command line tool that is designed primarily to be run out of the UNIX crontab, allowing for flexible scheduling.
The following steps demonstrate how you would set up the standard Availability Report to be emailed to <joe@example.com> every Monday morning at 6 a.m.
Find the proper URL to the Availability Report by navigating to it in the Web interface and taking note of the URL in your browser.
Log in to your Zenoss server and switch to the zenoss user by running the command:
su - zenoss
Create a script that will invoke
reportmailwith the appropriate options with the following commands:mkdir -p $ZENHOME/scripts
cat <<EOF > $ZENHOME/scripts/emailAvailabilityToJoe.sh
#!/bin/sh
REPORTS_URL="http://zenoss.example.com:8080/zport/dmd/Reports"
$ZENHOME/bin/reportmail \
--user=admin \
--password=zenoss \
--from="zenoss@example.com" \
--address="joe@example.com \
--subject="Zenoss: Availability Report" \
--url="$REPORTS_URL/Performance Reports/Availability Report"
EOF
chmod 755 $ZENHOME/scripts/emailAvailabilityToJoe.shNote
You can run reportmail --help on your Zenoss server for additional help on
reportmailoptions.Run crontab -e to edit the zenoss user's crontab. You will be presented with an editor that allows you to set up scheduled commands.
Type a capital O to add a new line, and then enter the following job definition:
# Email availability report to Joe every Monday morning at 6am.
0 6 * * 1 bash -lc '$ZENHOME/scripts/emailAvailabilityToJoe.sh'Note
You can run man 5 crontab on your Zenoss server for more help on crontab formatting.
Type ESCAPE, and then :wq to save this crontab.
