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Requirement

A report will be sent to another department for use in their reporting.  This report needed to have specific columns and headings for use in that departments systems.  A new more general report was created in opReports and this report needs to be transformed and copied using SFTP to A particular report needed to take a new report which was added to opReports 4.4.1 for Burst Billing Report or Bandwidth Exceeds Contract Report

Solution

Installation

The code for this solution is included in the NMIS9 contrib folder which is available in the installation or from NMIS9@GitHub, it will be in the folder nmis9/contrib/reports

This particular script will need to be linked into the /usr/local/omk/bin folder as that is where opReports will look for it.

Some handy commands (sudo might be required):

sudo mkdir /usr/local/nmis9/util
sudo ln -s /usr/local/nmis9/contrib/reports/opreports-sftp.pl /usr/local/omk/bin
sudo cp /usr/local/nmis9/contrib/reports/FtpExport.nmis /usr/local/nmis9/conf
sudo /usr/local/nmis9/bin/nmis-cli act=fixperms

Update Configuration File

You will need to edit /usr/local/nmis9/conf/FtpExport.nmis and update your settings, the file looks like this:

%hash = (
  "ftp_server" => "your.ftp.server.domain.com",
  "ftp_user" => "ftp_user",
  "ftp_password" => "dapasswordsecretthing",
  "ftp_directory" => "/tmp",
  "ftp_log_directory" => "/tmp"
);

The configuration settings are: