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Requirement
A report was required for billing when the usage exceeded the contract, sometimes referred to as 95th percentile billing, this 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 .
Solution
Overview
A new report which was added to opReports 4.4.1 for Burst Billing Report or Bandwidth Exceeds Contract Report
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, currently when opReports generates this report, it will look for the existence of a script called /usr/local/omk/bin/opreports-sftp.pl, if it finds this file it will execute that report to operate on the reports generated by opReports, transform them and then transfer the files as required.
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
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The configuration settings are:
| Setting | Description |
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| ftp_server | The IP address or FQDN of the target server. |
| ftp_user | The FTP username to use. |
| ftp_password | The FTP password to use. |
| ftp_directory | Where to put the files. |
| ftp_log_directory | Where to put the FTP log files. |