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This page describes what mechanisms are available, and how to control them in the GUI, with opreports-cli and for report schedules.
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Choosing the selection mechanism for scheduled reports
For scheduled reports your schedule must contain a property named sources, with one of the following values: "everything", "node_regexp", "node_group", "nodes", "node_list", "node_intf_list" or "node_intf_type_list". Those mechanisms are described below.
If you use the opReports schedule editing GUI then this property will be managed on your behalf.
The Simplest Choice: Everything
If you do not make an explicit selection, then opReports will work on all active nodes (and all their active interfaces, for report types that handle interfaced).
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Providing insufficiently precise information to reports that require it will result in an error message (e.g. trying to run a summary report with just group=X).
Order of Precedence
If you happen to provide multiple (conflicting) selection criteria, here is how opReports handles such:
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