DRA Reporting provides two methods of generating reports that allow you to see the latest changes in your environment and to collect and review user account, group, and resource definitions in your domain.
Accessed through the ARM console and the Delegation and Configuration console, these reports provide real-time change information for objects in your domain.
Accessed through NetIQ Reporting Center (Reporting Center), these reports provide activity, configuration, and summarization information about events in your managed domains. Some reports are available as graphical representations of the data.
For example, you can view a list of changes made to an object or by an object during a specified time period using Activity Detail reports. You can also view a graph showing the number of events in each managed domain during a specified time period using Management reports. Reporting also allows you to view details about the DRA security model, such as ActiveView and AA group definitions.
DRA Management reports can be installed and configured as an optional feature and are viewed in Reporting Center. When you enable and configure data collection, DRA collects information about audited events and exports it to a SQL Server database on a schedule that you define. When you connect to this database in Reporting Center, you have access to over 60 built-in reports:
Activity reports that show who did what, and when
Configuration reports that show the state of AD or DRA at a specific point in time
Summarization reports that show activity volume
For more information about configuring data collection for Management reports, see Reporting Configuration.
You can view details of each data collector on the Collectors Status tab.
To view the status of the collectors:
Expand Configuration Management, and then click Update Reporting Service Configuration.
On the Collectors Status tab, click each entry to view additional information about data collection, such as when data was last collected and whether the last data collection was successful.
If you see no data in the Server list, click Refresh.
After installing DRA Reporting components, enable and configure reporting data collection to access Reporting Center reports.
To enable reporting and data collection:
Navigate to Configuration Management > Update Reporting Service Configuration.
On the SQL Server tab, select Enable DRA Reporting support.
Click Browse in the Server Name field and select the computer where SQL Server is installed.
On the Credentials tab, specify the appropriate credentials to use for the SQL Server interactions.
If this is the same account that can be used to create the database and initialize the schema, select the Use the above credentials for creating a database and initializing the database schema check box.
If you want to specify a different account for creating a database, on the Admin Credentials tab, specify that user account and password.
Click OK.
For information on configuring specific collectors, see Reporting Configuration.