Introduction
Open-AudIT Enterprise bring an initial two brings three additional features to leverage your Open-AudIT installation - Dashboard, Maps and Scheduled Reports.
Dashboard
The Dashboard gives a quick overview of important items in the Open-AudIT database. There are (initially) four distinct graphs:
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These dashboard graphs are pre-configured in Open-AudIT Enterprise and updated on a daily basiswhenever the page is requested (live). Additional graphs can be constructed upon request.
Scheduled Reports
**UPDATE - This is now configurable from the web interface. In Open-AudIT Enterprise, go to System -> Email.
Scheduled Reports allows for the generation of predefined reports to be archived or emailed on a desired schedule. If a report is to be emailed, the section of the configuration file conf/opCommin opCommon.nmis dealing with email should be completed. The initial config is below.
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You should edit this config to reflect your particular environment. This is for sending email containing reports from the Open-AudIT Enterprise server. Users receiving emailed reports are configured in the next section.
Configuring
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Report Generation
Data is generated and either sent as a scheduled report or saved for use in graphs and reports in Open-AudIT Enterprise by a small cron script or scheduled task that should be run each day. Ideally this script should be scheduled to run at 2am each day. The cron script is a simple bash file kept in install/oae.cron (Linux) or install/oae.vbs (Windows). Feel free to move it if you desire. It must be run on the same machine that is running Open-AudIT Enterprise.
The oae_reports.json configuration file
**UPDATE - This is now configurable from the web interface. In Open-AudIT Enterprise, go to System -> Report Schedule.
The reports for both the Dashboard and Scheduled reports features are both configured in the file conf/oae_reports.json . The Dashboard reports should be left as is, as they are setup and preconfigured to work with the Dashboard(a copy of which resides in install/oae_reports.json). For any additional reports to be run as part of the Scheduled Reports feature, this file is where you need to work. The following is an example from the file for a single report. We shall examine the options for each attribute in details below.
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