topic Re: Error while gen3erating a pdf report in Reporting

Error while gen3erating a pdf report

arber — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 17:48:16 GMT

Hello,
we have created a report inside Windows Security Operation Center that is regarding the time syncroziation. This report is scheduled and is send via mail. The problem is that when we receive the mail we have the following error:

"A PDF was generated for windows_time
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An error occurred while generating the PDF. Please see python.log for details."

In python.log we have the following result:
2014-10-06 16:10:02,069 +0200 INFO sendemail:1158 - sendemail opening PDF request to appserver at https://*****:8000/en-US/report/
2014-10-06 16:10:02,073 +0200 ERROR sendemail:959 - An error occurred while generating a PDF: Failed to fetch PDF from appserver at https://**:8000/en-US/report/:
2014-10-06 16:10:02,210 +0200 INFO sendemail:109 - Sending email. subject="Splunk Alert: windows_time", results_link="https://**:8000/app/infigo_windows_soc/@go?sid=", recipients="[u'****************']"

Another thing is that we have scheduled even other reports and the pdf generation is correct.. Only this search gives this result

Re: Error while gen3erating a pdf report

arber — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 07:58:35 GMT

Also another error i get in python.log is this:
An error occurred while generating a PDF: Can't attach PDF - either ssLink or sessionKey unavailable

Any idea??
Thanks a lot

Re: Error while gen3erating a pdf report

arber — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 07:44:43 GMT

The WSOC app uses Advance XML Dahsboards but Splunk does not support the generation of pdf reports from these dashboards

Re: Error while gen3erating a pdf report

sarahnazzar — Wed, 06 May 2020 07:40:05 GMT

Hello @arber

You can have a look at this, may be this helps.
https://answers.splunk.com/answers/339920/where-should-i-check-for-pythonlog-error-messages.html

Cheers!