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The report tool presents a number of reports with information from your network. The report tool also links to the IP device center, to the “IP address scope - graphical view” and the services - graphical view.
Each NAV report is in essence an SQL query to the database. It shown its data in a number of columns. The data is in many cases also hyperlinks to other reports or other tools in NAV. The whole report system is highly configurable, the basis for the system is the configuration file report.conf. Details on the configuration is provides below.
An example report showing all your network equipment sorted by type:
From this report you can drill down on a particularly type and see the number of devices you have of this type. That will display another report (the netbox report) with more information on each device. From here you can go to other reports, i.e. a switch port report for a given switch, or a room showing equipment in a given room.
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