Expiration report

The Certificate Expiration Report shows all managed certificates that have expired or will be expiring within the timeframes designated in the report configuration.

You can generate the Certificate Expiration Report in PDF or CSV format. The following is an example of a Certificate Expiration report in PDF format. This report shows that three certificates have expired and one certificate will be expiring within 15 days.

Expiration Report Configuration Settings

Field	Description
Run Now	Queues the current report with the Reporting Module.
Download	Downloads the most recent run of the current report in the available format. When the Reporting module runs a report, it archives the latest version of the report in the format designated in the Report object configuration. To download a report Click the Download button . Select the available format. In the Save Report dialog, browse to where you want to save the report, and then click Save.
Scheduler
Last report generated on	Date and time the report was last generated.
Next Run	Next date and time the Report engine is scheduled to generate the report. The Next Run date and time is a guesstimate. Moreover, it happens only if the Reporting Module is enabled.
Setup & Delivery Tab	Defines the report format and delivery options.
Report Selections
WebAdmin Base URL	The URL that will be used when creating hyperlinks in the PDF report. All URLs will contain this base.
Report On	If you choose Discovered Certificates, you can also choose to include or exclude hidden results. If you choose Managed Certificates, you can also choose to include disabled certificate objects.
Include Root Certificates	Certificates that are listed as part of a Certificate Authority template object or certificates that are in the Roots tree.
Include disabled or hidden results	See the row Report On.
Disable Certificate Details	If you choose this, a table containing details about the certificates on the report won't be displayed.
Report Grouping	Send single report to configured recipients sends the report to the recipients specified in the Setup & Delivery tab. Send report to each certificate contact sends an individual report of assets to each certificate contact.
Selected folders	Select the objects you want included in the report.
Filters
Only include the following IPs	Use IPv4 addresses separated by commas or semicolons.
Only include the following contacts	This filter is available on reports for managed certificates. When contacts or groups are selected here, certificates that don't belong to those users or groups will be omitted.
Text Customizations
Explanatory Text	Customizable text that appears at the top of the PDF report.
Statement of Corporate Policy (Optional)	Customizable, optional text that appears at the end of the PDF report. Your corporate policy pertaining to the information being presented can be shown here.
Email Publishing	The Email Publishing configuration enables the Reporting module to email the report to the designated recipients each time the Report engine generates the report. The Report module can send PDF only, PDF and CSV, or CSV only versions of the report. If no report format is selected, Trust Protection Platform sends a CSV report. The SMTP Host is defined in the platform settings in Policy Tree.
Send To	Emails the report to the designated recipients.
Contact	Emails the generated report to the Report object’s contact identities. If the Contact is one or more user identities, the Reporting module emails the report to every listed user. If the Contact is a group, the Reporting module emails the report to every member of the group.
Address	Emails the generated report to the designated email addresses. You can delineate multiple email addresses with a comma.
File Publishing	The File Publishing configuration enables the Reporting module to upload the report to a designated location each time the Report engine generates the report. The default filename for the report file is Report_Title-yyMMdd-HHmm.extension or Report_Title-yyMMdd-HHmm.-subtitle.extension. For example: Venafi Trust Protection Platform Licensing Report-100726.pdf. This filenaming convention prevents overwriting the previous report, particularly if the report is generated on an hourly schedule or you generate multiple copies of the report during the same report run.
Upload via FTP or SCP	Designates the protocol you want to use to upload a report to the designated location.
Host	IP address or hostname of the computer where you want to upload the report file. Trust Protection Platform recognizes both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
Location	Directory where you want to upload the report file on the designated host. The designated directory must already exist on the host.
Credentials	Credentials required to authenticate with the designated host. The account used to authenticate with the host must have permissions to write the report file to the designated directory.
Test Connection	Attempts to connect to the specified host and create a file in the specified directory. If the test is successful, the file that is created is deleted automatically.
Schedule Tab	The settings on the Schedule tab are additive. If you define Day, Week, and Month options, the effective schedule is an aggregate of all the settings. Take care in defining your report scheduling options. It is possible to configure the schedule so the report is never generated.
Time of Day
Manual	Runs the report only when you click (Run Now).
Hourly	Runs the report every hour.
But only between ___ and ___	Allows you to narrow the Hourly run cycle to specific hours in the day (for example, every hour between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.). Tip: If you want the final hourly report to run at 5 p.m., then specify the final run time as 5:01 p.m.
Daily	Runs the report every day at the designated hour.
Day of Week
Run only on	Run the report on the designated days.
Day of Month
Run only on day	Specific days of the month you want the report to run (for example, the first and seventh days of every month).
General Tab
Log Tab	Provides a view of all events triggered for the current object. An administrator must have a minimum of the Read permission to view this tab.
Permissions tab	On the Permissions tab, you select the users or groups to whom you want to grant permissions to the current object. Then, you select which permissions you want the users or groups to have. You can also manage object permissions via parent objects, including the root Platform object or the Trust Protection Platform server object (found in the Platforms tree). If you configure Permissions in a parent object, those permissions are inherited by all subordinate objects.