Output in Report Interchange Format

Output in Report Interchange Format (RIF) is available for all reports, except Peak Usage and Denial, Summary Barchart and Server Coverage reports. RIF is a simple, flexible, plain-text format that is designed to pass tabular information between the reporting module and another application, such as a spreadsheet.

The default field separator is a space character, although you can specify a different delimiter in the Output Options step of the Create Report Configuration wizard. Fields that contain the specified field delimiter are surrounded in quotation marks.

Textual reports are written to a single RIF file; each page of a multi-page graphical report is written to a separate RIF file. Sequential numbers (starting with 0) are appended to the filename base of the RIF files and they have the extension .rif. A Table of Contents RIF file is generated for each RIF report and is named output_filename_base_toc.rif. In addition, a Usage Efficiency report generated in RIF format has “_e” at the end of the file name base, for example, output_filename_base_e.rif.