Monthly Reports Schedule Missing

Hi Luk,

You can find the report scheduling by navigating through the options:

• Reports
• Settings
• Report Scheduling

You can configure the Email Frequency to Weekly or Daily.

Please refer the link here: https://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/123201.aspx

Hope that helps :)

Thanks

Sachin Gurung

Hi Luk,

You can find the report scheduling by navigating through the options:

• Reports
• Settings
• Report Scheduling

You can configure the Email Frequency to Weekly or Daily.

Please refer the link here: https://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/123201.aspx

Hope that helps :)

Thanks

Sachin Gurung

Thank you Sachin,

but this does not help. On XG should be possible to send reports Daily, Weekly and Monthly. This is available on UTM. Also I do not want to give to non-technical users access to XG only to generate itself monthly reports. This is a basic feature.

Hi Luk,

In XG, monthly report notification cannot be configured but I personally feel that weekly reporting does the job. Reviewing report(s) on weekly basis will be easier than reviewing it on monthly basis.  

But if you still feel that the requirement is necessary, please raise a feature request here: 

feature.astaro.com/.../330219-sophos-xg-firewall

Thanks

Sachin Gurung

http://feature.astaro.com/forums/330219-sophos-xg-firewall/suggestions/13436049-monthly-reports-scheduling-missing

Thank you Sachin. It not a "feeling".. it is a basic feature that UTM had and used a lot on my customers.

I'm going to have to agree with Luk on this one.  There are many use cases where reviewing reports on a monthly basis is preferable to reviewing it weekly.  For instance, I like to know how much data my users have consumed in a month since this is how I'm billed....monthly.  It doesn't seem like it would be that big of a deal to have already added this feature especially given this is already present on UTM.

I'm shocked at the number of seemingly basic UTM features that are missing on XG, including the ability to archive the reports on the device itself like on UTM.  I have come to miss many of these "basic" features I had grown accustomed to on UTM.  I think I'll also feature request monthly reports and report archiving. 

Thanks

Corey

Thank you Corey. Vote the feature request I have opened.

I can't believe it's been 4 years and a monthly report feature is still not in Sophos XG.  I can't imagine why this is such a difficult feature to implement, especially since it was in UTM and this didn't seem to be problematic.  I wish there was a way to make Sophos team see the urgency in adding a monthly reporting option. 

Hi Corey,

while requesting an improved reporting period function can we also ask that the reports accuracy be improved?

Example a monthly report (but not a rolling report)

one user 24000 hits 1.3mb downloaded

3 users over 6000 hits for the ISP's mail server 0B

Speedtest results - 25/10mb/s when testing 50/20 mb/s service -data transfer varies on where you look. If you look at the rule throughput you gent different values to that shown on the diagnostic page.

If you specify a 24 hour report period why do you get data for longer periods?

These issues have been raised before.

Ian

I'm starting to feel like the push to bring monthly reporting has been largely abandoned by the Sophos team.  After tracking this issue for 4 years, there's nothing in the works and no mention that this was in development or testing.  This should have been an easy win for them, but instead they've dropped the ball on this one.