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5.8 System Status Auto-Reporting
The system status auto report is an email in html format that is a snapshot of current conditions,
identical to what is displayed on the System Summary web page.
System Status Reporting
Click the appropriate radio button to select whether the report should be sent by email (Enable) or not
(Disable).
Auto Report Log
Click the link to View Log File. The Auto Report Log will tell you the status of any report emails that
may have been sent. It will show you the date and time of the report, the type of report, the method used
to send it, whether it was successful at sending the message or not, and the reason for a failure if
applicable.
A window will open to ask if you would like to open the file or save it to disc. Select the method you
would like to use. The file is a basic text file with a .log extension that may be opened in any word
processing program (Word, Notepad, etc.).
Status
This menu is informational only, telling you when the next report is due to be sent.
Reporting Mode
Click the appropriate radio button to select an Hourly, Daily, Weekly, Biweekly, or Monthly report
frequency. Type the time of day for receiving the report in the text boxes, and use the pull down menus
to select the desired day, and to select AM or PM.
Important: If this unit is part of a network of controllers, you must stagger the reports from each
controller in the network to occur at least an hour apart. Failure to do this could result in lost reports!
Report Testing
Click the Send a Test Report Now button to see if the report will be sent correctly. The email address
entered in the Communications page will be used. If you haven’t already entered this information, go
the Communications page and do so before trying a test report.
5.9 Datalog Auto Report
The other type of automatic report is a data log report. This report will email a data log file of any
parameters selected. This file may be opened in a spreadsheet for graphing or other data manipulation.
This report is sent on a cyclical schedule.
The Manual (see section 5.10) and Auto Reporting data logs are dynamically connected to each other.
For each data log, select the parameters to log, and the maximum time frame of the data log and submit
the changes. The controller will calculate the minimum interval between data points based on available
memory, memory required for each data log, and the settings for each data log.
Note that if you have a data log building, and you change the parameters to log, log duration or logging
interval, any data previously gathered will be lost! If the changes to one log results in less memory
being available for the other data log, the other log’s minimum logging interval may change, erasing the
other data log as well.