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7.2 Discovery Reports (Discovery Job Page)

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Job Reports

At the bottom of the Discovery screen is a list of jobs generated by the Discovery process (outlined in blue).  Each line of the list is a Job and Project title.  Each has a tooltip definition attached to it. It can be seen by hovering over each column header title.

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Job Name (Optional) | Job ID

View Job Report - Generate a report for the associated job.

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Project Name (Optional) | Project ID

View Project Report - Generate a report listing all jobs associated with a project.

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Job Report Information

The job report option is used to generate a report outlining the number of files and amount of data discovered for the selected job.

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Download Jobs Reports

IMPORTANT:
Discovery information is purged
after 7 days - to retain the information it is recommended to download reports prior to them being purged.

The reports may be downloaded in either a HTML or CSV format.  The process to save either format is the same.

Notes:

  • To generate a job report identify the desired job report to be generated.
  • In this example a job report for "Job ID 5260" will be generated.
  1. Click on the Purple Report icon to the left of "5260".
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This will open a separate browser tab to display the example "Job ID 638" report (outlined in blue).

Just below the Job report header information is a Summary header containing the following Lifetime Summary information (outlined in purple):

  • Run Number
  • Start Time
  • End Time
  • Elapsed Time
  • Action
  • Status
  • Bytes Moved
  • Files Moved
  • Bytes Worked
  • Files Worked

Note:
When the job completes the Amount of Work Done is displayed (outlined in green).

  1. Click on the CSV icon.
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  1. Click on the Download icon.
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The system pop-up window listing of Recent download history.

Job 5260 - Google Chrome

Opening and Saving the Discovery Report

  1. Click on the report(1).csv link.
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This will open the report in the EXCEL program..

Note:
The screenshot below is for illustrative purposes.

  1. Click on the Save As... icon.
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This example shows the steps needed to save a Job Report:

Note:

  • The actual steps are dependent on the actual file structure of the user's computer.
  • In this example the Job report will be saved in the Discovery Jobs folder.
  1. Navigate to the destination folder.
  2. Click on the Save icon.
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The header of the EXCEL worksheet shows that the workbook is "Saved to this PC".

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Exiting the Job Report

  1. To exit the reporting function click the X in the Job Report tab of the active browser window.
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This completes the overview of the "Discover Now" scan feature.  Discovery Jobs will be covered in a later article.

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