This is a custom web report that I created a while back that allows you to search for installed applications on clients. Results can be saved to PDF or Excel.
It’s been a while, but I finally got around to fixing a few issues. The report was originally posted in
Ugh, can’t say I’m a fan of this BBCode… wish I could edit my post too.
This is a custom web report that I created a while back that allows you to search for installed applications on clients. Results can be saved to PDF or Excel.
It’s been a while, but I finally got around to fixing a few issues. The report was originally posted in
Thanks for the comments! I started creating custom reports by looking at the source of reports that others have created. The Application Search out of my own need for something similar to the “Installed Application Audit” report, which is no longer maintained: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=405950. I used some of that code as a reference. I haven’t seen a whole lot of documentation out there for creating custom web reports.
To create custom reports like this in Web Reports, you need to be fairly fluent in HTML, JavaScript, and relevance language. The data is retrieved by passing a relevance query to a JavaScript function, which sends the request to the web reports server and retrieves the result. I really enjoy using the
JQuery framework
along with the
DataTables
plugin when writing JavaScript and find that it saves a significant amount of development work.
I’m not sure why the export functionality is not working for you… How are you trying to export it? Are you clicking the “PDF” or “Excel” links at the top of the table? I believe you need Flash to be able to do this.
I did see that same issue on one web reports server where I could not export to CSV or PDF so I stepped through the differences. Basically it came down to the working server had the older version of the report and the non-working server did not. The updated server had the folders DataTables-1.7.5 DataTables-1.9.2 and the fresh install only had DataTables-1.8.2. I copied the 1.7.5 over to the non-working server and it started working.
I have not had time to look into why, but this seems to have solved the problem. If I can get some time, I will see if I can look into it more, but might take a while.
Sorry for taking so long to get back to you, but I’m glad you were able to track down the problem and like the report. I’ll fix that error in the next revision that I release.
First, let me say a very big Thank You for this report. It is a lifesaver, and we use it daily.
Now, the reason for my post. Yesterday I imported version 2.2 and we noticed that the Linux search wasn’t working. It works fine in version 2.1 of the report. It’s not a big deal, but just wanted to at least make you aware.
This is exactly what I was looking for, however, it works really great for Windows searches, but I don’t get anything back when I try to search my Linux machines…must be something I’m doing wrong?
Not necessarily, there might be a bug in the report… I’ll look into it. In the meantime, you might want to make sure the Linux RPM analyses Re activated.
Hi Matt…yeah, I think that is what the problem was. Once I enabled the Linux RPM Patching site and then activated the Installed RPM/.deb Package List actions, I started to get some results back from my Linux boxes. Thanks for this great tool!
