Creating Subscriptions

When you create a subscription, you instruct Oracle Advanced Monitoring and Resolution to e-mail, on a periodic basis, certain types of user reports to recipients defined in a subscriber list.

You configure scheduled reports by defining which type of report to send, the frequency with which the report is sent, and to whom the report is sent. You can schedule reports to be sent to one or more recipients.

To create a report subscription:

1. Log in to Oracle Advanced Monitoring and Resolution.

   The Oracle Advanced Monitoring and Resolution page appears.

2. Click the Advanced Monitoring tab.

   The Advanced Monitoring page appears.

3. From the Reports menu, select Create Subscription.

   The Create Subscription page appears.

4. In the Subscription Title box, enter a name for the report subscription, for example, Jim's daily update of CMS inventory.

5. From the Report list, select the report you want to schedule to be delivered to a subscriber list.

6. From the Schedule Type list, select a schedule for the report. You can choose from any of the following options (you must choose at least one):

   • To send a report on a daily basis, select Daily report (you must select the time of day at which the report should be sent).

   • To send a report on a weekly basis, select Weekly (you must select the day of the week on which the report should be sent).

   • To send a report on a monthly basis, select Monthly (you must select the day of the month on which the report should be sent.

7. From the Deliver At list (filtered from your Schedule Type selection), select either the time of day, the day of the week, or the day of the month on which the report should be sent.

8. From the Time Zone list, select the time zone region associated with sending the report.

9. From the Date Format list, select the date format associated with sending the report.

10. From the Time Format list, select the time format associated with sending the report.

11. From the E-mail Format list, select the format in which to send the report.

12. Select Archive Report if you want to view reports from the archive from the Subscription Summary page.

    The Max Archives box appears.

13. Enter the maximum number of reports that you want to archive. 10 is the default maximum.

14. From the Subscribers area, select the report recipients by selecting the appropriate subscriber e-mail list.

15. Click SUBSCRIBE

    The Choose reason box appears.

16. From the list, select a reason for subscribing to the report, then click CONFIRM.

Oracle Advanced Monitoring and Resolution creates the subscription and schedules the report to be delivered to the selected subscribers.