Running reports automatically in HPSIM 5.0?

[Ulf Rasmussen]

Hi guys,

I have a customer who has made a report for inventory collection. Is it possible to automatically run this report and have it exported somehow using HPSIM? If the customer could get this inventory report in his mailbox every month for instance, now that would be cool... Any experiences?

[fred Passeron]

Hi

Try this :
1/Create a report in HP SIM
2/Create a custom command to launch this report using the mxreport command in CLI
3/Schedule the custom command to run periodically.

Details around mxreport command can be found either by running mxreport /? From a prompt on the hpsim server or from the web on the man pages of the HPSIM website here : http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/info-library5/mxreport.1m.html

see attached doc for more details

Regarding emailing the result :
HP SIM can automate emailing on recieving alerts, events. Unfortunately, you cannot ling the custom command and this automation.
What you can do is create a small batch file that would contain the mxreport command a dos utility to send the mail just after the creation of teh report.

Take a look here :
http://www.febooti.com/products/command-line-email/


hope it helps

Fred

[Ulf Rasmussen]

That sounds like a good plan, I'll try that and see if it solves our challenge!

[Ulf Rasmussen]

This works like a charm, thanks for your excellent answer.