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6. As shown in Figure A-9, select the summary record. Click Copy and then click Paste.

Figure A-9 Operational Reporting: Advanced customization: Copy/paste of summary record

7. Update the newly created summary report as shown in Figure A-10.

a. Select the record and click Edit.

Figure A-10 Operational Reporting: Advanced customization: Editing the report

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b. Update the SQL variable name, the report label, and then select the statement as

shown in Figure A-11. Click Edit Rule. Update the rule as shown in Figure A-11 and

Figure A-12.

c. Click OK to confirm it.

Figure A-11 Operational Reporting: Editing the custom summary

Figure A-12 shows the updated Notification rule.

Figure A-12 Operational Reporting: Defining a notification rule

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8. Select the summary reports that you are not interested in for this monitor (see

Figure A-13) and click Delete. From here, you can make changes to the summary reports

according your requirements. For this example, we only want what we have defined so far.

Figure A-13 Operational Reporting: Deleting reports

Figure A-14 shows how to update the recipient list to include the e-mail addresses of

everyone who is to receive this notification. This completes the monitor definition.

Figure A-14 Operational Reporting: Defining the e-mail recipients

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We now create a Windows command file to run this monitor. The command file is required

because the Windows scheduler does not allow command line parameters. Instead, we

include the command line parameters from the script using the following steps.

1. Collect a list of defined reports and monitors. To do this, change to the directory where the

console is installed.

2. From that directory, type the command:

tsmrept -type=list

The command line parameters for the monitor we want are the first ones listed as shown in

Figure A-15. The first one is the 15 minute monitor that we just created.

Figure A-15 Operational Reporting: tsmrept -type=list

3. Start notepad and create the command file. When completed, save it in normal ANSI

encoding.

Figure A-16 Operational Reporting: Defining a .cmd file

Now set up the Windows scheduler to run this command file. In this scenario, we set it to run

every 15 minutes as we define with our requirements.

1. Select Start →Settings →Control Panel to open the Windows Control Panel.

2. Click Scheduled Tasks to start the Wizard.

3. In the Scheduled Task Wizard window (Figure A-17), click Next to reach the first input

window.

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Figure A-17 Scheduled task wizard

4. Click the Browse button (Figure A-18) and navigate through the file system. Select the

15_minute_monitor.cmd as the program to schedule.

Figure A-18 Scheduled Task Wizard: Assign program