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Today I will be talking a bit about a specific subset of the report filtering
functionality of IP360. If you are like me, you often need to create a report
containing, or excluding a specific list of IP addresses. This is where the
'Fine Tune' tab in the report filter section of IP360 comes in handy. I will
walk through the process for creating and using a report filter to serve this
purpose.

Begin by navigating to 'Analyze -> Reporting Filters' in the IP360 interface
and clicking on 'New'. Give a logical name to your filter such as
"Excluding/Including IP List" and then continue to the 'Fine Tune' tab. You
will be presented with several drop-down boxes. From the 'Attribute' box,
select 'IP/IP Range' and change the 'Action' to 'Include' or 'Exclude' based
on the desired result. Next, enter your IP Address or range in the text box
and click 'Add'.

Below is a screenshot of a reporting filter I have set up to exclude a list of
hosts from my report.



After saving your reporting filter, begin generating a report of your choosing.
When configuring options for report generation, the second step, 'Select a
Reporting Filter', will allow you to apply the reporting filter you just created.
Double-click your filter to move it into the 'Selected' section as illustrated below.
Click the 'View' button to generate your report with the selected filter applied.



Now that you've seen how reporting filters can save you time and simplify reporting,
it's time to really make use of them. Next week, we'll take a more in-depth look at
some of the additional functionality offered by reporting filters.