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Email Action - How to generate reports on each computer and send them by email?

How to generate reports on each computer and send them by email?

Pre-requisite:

• Add a distribution server
• Create a distribution

This example describes the procedure to generate reports from the IPCONFIG command on each target computer and send them by E-mail.
The distribution is composed of three actions:

• Generation of a report from the IPCONFIG command on each target computer

You must set the following arguments:

• Select the action: Command.

• Enther the command: IPConfig

• Check the box Arguments and enter: /all> \\Odev-01\C$\IpConfig_%computername%.txt

• Send the report by email from each computer

You can set the following options: (in bold the required informations)

• SMTP Server address.

• SMTP Server port number.

• Define if the SMTP server requires an authentication (a user account / password will be required).

• Sender e-mail address.

• Recipient e-mail address.

• Any recipients addresses to copy.

• Enter the name of the file to attach to the e-mail: %SystemDrive%\IpConfig_%computername%.txt

• L'objet de l'e-mail.

• Le corps du message à envoyer.

• Remove the generated report on each computer

• Select the action: File.

• Enter the command: Delete
• Enter the file: %SystemDrive%\IpConfig_%computername%.txt