Setup Reporting Module

Setup Reporting Module

Advantages of Reporting Module over the default Dashboard:

Reduced Data Processing time
More detailed reports
Hour-wise reports
More filtering options
Deeper data analysis
An automated data mining engine
Exportable reports to PDF and Excel formats

Install Module

Navigate to src folder by running
  1. cd /usr/local/src
Now download the tarball as
Untar it by running the below command
  1. tar -xvzf reporting_latest.tar.gz
Change directory to report
  1. cd report
Now run the setup file
  1. ./setup.sh

Generate Reports

On successfull installation, change directory to /usr/local/safesquid/api
  1. cd /usr/local/safesquid/api
Run the below command to generate reports for a particular day
  1. ./app_handler.py -d <date>
Eg: ./app_handler.py -d 20.05.2017
Run the below command to generate reports between a date range
  1. ./app_handler.py -s <start date> -e <end date>
Eg: ./app_handler.py -s 05.05.2017 -e 20.05.2017
Note: Date format should be in dd.mm.yyyy
Eg : 03.08.1990

View Reports

Open your favourite browser and set SafeSquid, for which you generated the reports in step 2, as the proxy.
Now, you are looking at today’s reports.
If reports for today were not generated in the step 2, the reports page will be blank.
So, use the date picker to view the reports that were generated in the step 2.




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