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Summary Reports

Owned by Gary Leicht
Last updated: Sept 06, 2024
4 min read

Infoblox summary reports provide high-level cyber-security information. They deliver highly informative visuals and key metrics in a form that is easy to read and understand and that impacts the business directly. Infoblox provides two summary reports:

  • Executive Summary Report: The Executive Summary Report provides the state of the business and its cybersecurity efforts. Infoblox delivers this report to stakeholders who are not technical consumers. The recipients of this report can incorporate its graphics and visuals into other reports and presentations.
  • Comprehensive Security Report: The Comprehensive Security Report consists of a high-level roll-up and supports visual data and key findings of activity across an organization's network. The information can be downloaded as a PDF and does not require executive staff members to access the Infoblox Portal in order to access it. The high-level data in the report will help non-IT staff understand key Information Security metrics.

Both reports are available to subscribers of Infoblox Threat Defense Business Cloud and Infoblox Threat Defense Advanced. The Executive Summary Report is not available for Infoblox Threat Defense Essentials or for Infoblox Threat Defense Business On-Premises subscribers.

The Summary Report page.

Image: The Summary Report page. 

Downloading a Summary Report

To download a report, complete the following steps:


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Select a Choose a report to generate:

  • Click the radial button in the Executive Summary Report description box to download the executive summary report. 
  • Click the radial button in the Comprehensive Security Report description box to download the comprehensive security report. 


Image: Selecting a report type to generate.  

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Select a time period for the report you would like to download. You can select up to 31 days of data: Either choose a preset value—1 hour, 24 hours, 48 hours, 7 days, or 1 month—or specify a Custom range of dates and times (limited to 30 days) for the summary report you want to download. 24 hours is selected by default. When you select a custom range, a date-time prompt will populate the page: 


Image: Selecting a time period. 

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Choose page size:  Select one of the following page sizes from the drop-down list: 

  • Default: 17.78 x 10 inches (452 x 254 mm)
  • A4: 11.69 x 8.27 inches (297 x 210 mm)
  • US Letter: 11 x 8.5 inches (279 x 216 mm)

Selecting a page size.
Image: Selecting a page size. 

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Schedule Reports: Click Schedule Reports to schedule a report. For information on how to schedule a report, see the section on Scheduling A Summary Report.

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Export: Click Export to download a summary report. The report will be downloaded in pdf format.

You can also do the following on the page: 

  • Background Tasks: Click the hourglass icon to open the side panel to view a list of all running background tasks. 

  • Global Search: Click the search icon, and in the Search text box, enter your search criterion. Alternatively, select the criterion if it appears under Recent Searches, which shows tool information, console messages, and other information used in recent searches. The Infoblox Portal will show all records that match the search criterion. 

Scheduling A Summary Report

To schedule a report, do the following:

  1. In the Infoblox Portal, click Monitor > Reports > Summary Reports.
  2. On the Summary Reports page, click Schedule. A pop-up window will appear:

The Create Scheduled Report window. 
Image: The Create Scheduled Report window.

3. In the Create Scheduled Report pop-up, specify the following: 

  • Name (required): Provide a name for the scheduled report.
  • Description: Provide an optional description for the report to be scheduled.  
  • Email (required): The email information submitted when the scheduled event was created or edited. Links to the report embedded in the email are valid only for 24 hours. After that time, you can download a copy of the report from the Past Scheduled Events page.
  • Reports: Select Executive Summary Report or Comprehensive Security Report.

Select a time period for the report you would like to download. You can select up to 30 days of data. Choose 1 hour, 24 hours, 48 hours, 7 days, or 1 month.

Selecting a time period
Image: Selecting a time period. 

Occurs: Select the periodicity for the report: daily, weekly, or monthly. For weekly delivery, select a day of the week. 
Selecting the periodicity.
Image: Selecting the periodicity.

  • Starts On: When scheduling a report with a monthly periodicity, select a start date and time from the calendar object. Click Apply to save your selections.

    Image: The Start calendar. 
  • Ends: 
    • Never: The scheduled report will be published perpetually.
    • After – Occurrences: The report will be published only the number of times you specify in this field.
    • On: Delivery of the report will stop on the date you specify when scheduling a report with a monthly periodicity. Select an end date and time from the calendar object. Click Apply to save your selections.

 The End calendar.
Image: The End calendar. 

7. Click Save & Close. 

For more information, see the following: