Sourcing a report pack with jobs

When you choose a job for a report pack you are actually determining what data is gathered by the job.

Before you begin

Learn more about report packs:
  • The report pack must be rerun after you apply a filter for it to take affect. Choose the Automatically run report pack option if the report pack is sourced by a single job. Otherwise, a report pack sourced by multiple jobs should be updated on a schedule so that trend data is more consistent.
  • The time it takes to generate a report pack increases when you apply a source job to it; however, by focusing the report pack on a specific job, as opposed to all jobs, the number of issues you need to review at a given time is likely reduced.
  • If you add a job to a folder that contributes data to the report pack, the job must be run before the report pack is run, or the report pack data will not be current.

About this task

Before the job begins to scan its Starting URLs and additional domains, it looks to see what report packs it contributes to. Based on the reports in the report pack, the job determines what data it needs to gather while it is scanning a website or testing its applications. When you select all jobs in your installation, all of their data and every domain, is included in the report pack.

Procedure

  1. Go the report pack Source Jobs page.
  2. Select the jobs that will contribute data to the report pack. If there are no jobs in the list, click the Add icon (Add) to add them to the list.
    Note: Note that reporting on multiple jobs in a single report pack will increase report generation time.
  3. (Optional) Select the folders that contain jobs that will contribute data to the report pack. If there are no folders in the list, click the Add icon (Add) to add them to the list.
  4. (Optional) Choose the Automatically run report pack option if the report pack is sourced by a single job.

What to do next

Adding reports to a report pack