Setting Reports prerequisites

Before you can use Reports, you need to specify the database to use for reporting, and you need to configure the delivery options for report subscriptions. These settings are defined in Management Console.

To set the prerequisites:

Open Management Console and select Tools > Reports Configuration to open the dialog.
Click the Reports tab to configure general reporting options:
- From the dropdown list in the Reports Database section, select the database on which to run reports. Only those databases and database archives compatible with Reports are listed.
- (Optional) Use the slider in the Report Timeout section to set the time (in seconds) after which Reports stops trying to complete a report generation task.
Click the Subscriptions tab to configure the settings for report subscriptions:
- SMTP Server: Enter the IP address of your SMTP server, or the fully-qualified network server name from which the report subscriptions are emailed.
- Port: Type the port address used by your SMTP server.
- Use SSL: Select this option to encrypt your user credentials.
- Username: If required by your SMTP server, enter the Windows user name used to configure the SMTP server settings.
- Password: If required by your SMTP server, enter the password associated with the Windows user name.
- “From” Display Name: (Optional) Type the name that you want to appear in the “From” field of an emailed report.
- “From” Email Address: Type the email address that you want to appear in the “From” field of the emailed report.
Click OK to save your changes.