This discussion focused on custom reporting needs and different ways to create and access reports. It was suggested to ask ControlUp for a road map call, and to open a public API as part of the new streaming data project. Insights (on-prem) and PowerShell and Excel were also mentioned as possible ways to create custom reports. Additionally, reports should be stored for one year, rather than having the data in two places, to avoid extra work for users.
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Reporting Related Training & Support Archives
Reporting training and support-related archives from inside the ControlUp Community on Slack.
Duplicates Actions on ControlUp Edge DX Reported by Users
Users reported seeing duplicate actions on Edge DX when accessing devices through either a Mac or Windows device. It was determined to be a bug and it will be reported to the Edge DX team. The Microsoft Edge version was 119.0.2151.58 (Official build) (arm64).
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Setting an Alert for MS Teams Crashes
A user asked about setting an alert for MS Teams crashes. They tried various settings and changed the operators to “contains.” Another user suggested that the number of hits and platform should be set to 600, 1, 3600 and “all platforms” respectively. After that, the user was able to set the alert. However, the user suggested analyzing data first to avoid false positives. Lastly, the user asked if it was possible to exclude certain errors from the alert description. To solve the issue, they want to run a clear Teams cache script in the event of a real crash.
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Understanding Missing Patches in Reports with ControlUp Edge DX
A user asked about a missing patch in a report and how to solve this issue - the Windows team installed the 2023-09 update, which should contain the 2023-08 update. The user had asked the same question last week and apologized for missing it. The discussion can be found at https://controlupcommunity.slack.com/archives/C0467CPGDM4/p1698340699204209.
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Investigating Performance Issues with Teams on W2019 PVS Machines
The head of IT reported extreme slowness of Teams in his W2019 PVS shared machines since the beginning of the week. Insights showed high latency and low protocol bandwidth in the historical data but no CPU or memory peeks were seen. It was suggested to look at real-time performance views on his machine, and consider upgrading to the latest ControlUp version 8.8 to check all FSLogix metrics.
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Proposal to Group Devices by Age for Life Cycle Management
A user proposed creating a report to group laptops/Desktops by age, including hardware warranty data, and to see how device performance decreases with age to aid life cycle management. User experience scores and the Edgedx breakdown will be used. Another user expressed appreciation for the example, since they will be proposing the concept to a customer the next day with the hope of selling Edgedx. The value of the concept is clear for devices requiring refreshment.
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Filtering and Reporting on Users Per Host in ControlUp
The user needed to filter and pull a report on users per host, and wanted the hostname included in the sessions view. They have data in the machines view but want the ability to filter by hypervisor hosts. In the future, they would like an option to navigate to focus on a specific cluster, change to sessions view, and filter by hypervisor hosts. For reporting, they would like to export reports of users on a specific host.
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Monitoring Other Appliances with ControlUp
A user asked about monitoring other appliances via API like routes. It was suggested that Scoutbees HTTP/S tests may be suitable, while VMware UAG and F5 were noted to be on the roadmap at some point, although there is nothing near-term available. The user was asked to identify the particular vendor appliance they are looking for monitoring.
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Using SessionCreationDate as Trigger Condition for Reports in ControlUp
A user asked if there is a way to use SessionCreationDate as a trigger condition for a report. It was suggested to use Invoke-cuquery and toast popup instead, and a sample sba was pointed out as a resource to create Windows Events. The sample can be found in the ControlUp Community Library.
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Troubleshooting an Elevated Child Process Error in ControlUp
A user experienced issues running a script through ControlUp Console, getting an error message about an elevated child process. Dennis suggested it may be due to User Access Control being enabled, however it was not enabled. A further suggestion was to try the script locally with the quiet switch, however it was reported that this made no difference. Dennis explained that the difference was that a hidden window was created in the non-interactive window session.
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