When an export is run, the default location for the export output file is the Export Output directory specified during the installation of the product. However, the Advanced tab allows this to be overridden on a per Export basis by changing the entry in the Output Path Specification field.
Note: Exports always take place on the Collector node and are run under the SapphireAdmin account. The user should therefore ensure that the SapphireAdmin account has the required security to access the directory specified.
Specifying the Export Output Path
The string used to define the path contains tokens with each token being delimited by a pair of square brackets. When the Export process runs, the tokens are substituted for the appropriate replacement text. Thus both the location and name of the export output file are 'dynamic' and can be controlled via the user.
By default, the Output Path specification is as follows:
[exportpath]\[domain]_[username]_[timestamp]_[outputfile]
This will generate export output files in the directory specified at install time, with each file being prefixed with the users domain, account name and the timestamp when the export was run. The prefixes help minimise the possibility of exports overwriting each other.
Tips: In addition to the defined list of tokens, the Output Path Specification can also contain hard coded text strings.
The drop down list contains commonly used Output Path Specifications in addition to the most recently used paths specified by the User.
Note: To add one of the defined tokens to the Export Output path Specification, double click on the required token. It will be inserted into the specification string immediately after the cursor position.
Exporting to a shared drive
As all exports are run on the Collectors node under the SapphireAdmin account, the mapped drives cannot be used when specifying the Export Output path (since the drive is unlikely to be mapped for the SapphireAdmin account). Instead UNC names should be used to specify the target directory.
For example:
\\mytargetpc\myshare\Exportdir\[outputfile]