Working with externally created report templates

The application provides built-in report templates and the ability to create custom templates based on those built-in templates. Beyond these options, you may want to use compatible templates that have been created outside of the application for your specific business needs. These templates may have been provided directly to your organization or they may have been posted in the Rapid7 Community at https://community.rapid7.com/community/nexpose/report-templates.

See Fine-tuning information with custom report templates for information about requesting custom report templates.

Making one of these externally created templates available in the Security Console involves two actions:

  1. downloading the template to the workstation that you use to access the Security Console
  2. uploading the template to the Security Console using the Reports  configuration panel

Note:  Your license must enable custom reporting for the template upload option to be available. Also, externally created custom template files must be approved by Rapid7 and archived in the .JAR format.

After you have downloaded a template archive, take the following steps:

  1. Click the Reports icon in the Security Console Web interface.
    OR
    Click the Create tab at the top of the page and then select Report from the drop-down list.
  2. Click Manage report templates.

The Manage report templates panel appears.

  1. Click New.

The Security Console displays the Create a New Report Template panel.

  1. Enter a name and description for the new template on the General section of the Create a New Report Template panel.
  2. Select Upload a template file from the Template type drop-down list.

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Upload a report template file

  1. Click Browse in the Select file field to display a directory for you to search for custom templates.
  2. Select the report template file and click Open.

The report template file appears in the Select file field in the Content section.

Note:  Contact Technical Support if you see errors during the upload process.

  1. Click Save.

The custom report template file will now appear in the list of available report templates on the Manage report templates panel.