Automating reports (gather & email through JSS)

[donmontalvo]

Now that we have SMTP set up correctly in JSS (thanks to Steve and Jared)...

We would like to use it to send reports out. Here's the requirement...

1. A saved search leverages a smart group to track deployment of a specific package. The search works fine.

2. We have 4 people, each set up with JSS accounts, who would like to receive an emailed report every morning. Essentially, run the saved search, email it to these folks.

3. Lather, rinse, repeat daily

Thanks for any feedback,
Don

[shakim]

I would like to know if:
*** We can create customized "Application" reports and have it save/exported to a network shared?

[Rosko]

Sorry to bring up an old post, but did you guys ever find a way to do this?

I'm just looking for an automated email that shows those is a smart group with a few fields.

[donmontalvo]

Hi @Roskos,

Our solution was to have a Smart Computer Group set up, using a service account, so any changes would be emailed to the address which was a distribution group. We didn't have any formatting requirements.

Don

[Rosko]

@donmontalvo

Thanks, Not quite what we're looking for, but might have to be an option.

Anyone tried this with API calls?

[donmontalvo]

@shakim Sorry I just noticed your post...2 years after you posted. We had DBAs that we called on to handle any custom queries or custom reports. We provided them access and they provided our client(s) reports, even created a few custom reports so "normals" could do a search and save as formatted PDF (etc.).