- How to schedule a report template?
- how to run a report template in command line to generate the output as csv
I suppose you are asking about how to do it from CLI
First, find out the number of the report template by
hammer report-template list
You’ll get a table of templates and their ids, in my case it looks like this
----|--------------------------
ID | NAME
----|--------------------------
175 | Ansible Inventory
143 | Applicable errata
159 | Applied Errata
165 | Entitlements
144 | Host statuses
150 | Host statuses CSV clone
158 | Host statuses CSV clone 2
166 | List of registered users
145 | Registered hosts
157 | Registered hosts clone
146 | Subscriptions
----|-------------------------
Let’s say I want to generate host statuses on Christmas
hammer report-template schedule --generate-at '2019-12-24 12:00:00' --id 144
I’ll receive a reply that the task has been scheduled and the job id is printed
The report has been scheduled. Job ID: 5830b450-bb00-4296-83ea-57128dee1d22
When the time comes, to download the result, you can download the report by running this command
hammer report-template report-data --id 144 --job-id 5830b450-bb00-4296-83ea-57128dee1d22
The reply is either that the data is not ready in case the task hasn’t finished yet. Otherwise you get the report printed to STDOUT. Note that the report is available for download 24 hours after it’s rendered. If you prefer to store the report into a file, specify --path $dir where the report should be stored. E.g.
hammer report-template report-data --id 144 --job-id 5830b450-bb00-4296-83ea-57128dee1d22 --path /tmp
The you should see the message similar to this
The response has been saved to /tmp/Host statuses-2019-12-11.csv
how to run a report template in command line to generate the output as csv
This depends on whether the report supports it. All default reports support all formats. To specify format, use --report-format csv but it’s the default. Note the format needs to be specified when you schedule the report, not when you download it. The full command may look like this
hammer report-template schedule --id 144 --report-format csv
Currently, we support csv, json, yaml, html.
Hope that helps. I’d be interested in how you use reports. Perhaps this writeup could be converted to our manual if you find it useful.
Thanks for the great explanation but unfortunately it doesnt solve my issue, can u please tell me how i can query from linux terminal the forman database and put the output to a file.
#su - postgres -c “psql foreman” ‘COPY (SELECT name FROM hosts;) TO STDOUT’ >> /tmp/testing/hostdata.txt
the above command not working when combined by separately works as below
#su - postgres -c “psql foreman”
foreman=#SELECT name FROM hosts;