Adobe AEM 6 SP2 | Health Check Report

OOTB health check report under /etc/reports is not showing any report.

so, tried below steps:

In the felix console http://<server>:<port>/system/console/configMgr.

configured Apache Sling Request Logger 

changed the value of the field Request Log Name from log.request to /logs/request.log

saved the configuration, verified health check report, but still could not see any report.

then restarted the server.

Now after the server restart, health check report started displaying the data.

So I have few queries.

1. Is this the correct way to configure health check report?

2. Is server restart required after the change in the felix configuration?

Thanks,

Radhakrishna N