Identity Reporting generates a snapshot of the catalog and the state of permissions or reviews. You can use the reports to help meet compliance regulations for your business. You can also create custom reports if the predefined reports do not meet your needs. The user interface for Identity Reporting makes it easy to schedule reports to run at off-peak times for optimized performance.
There are two different versions of Identity Reporting you can install. You can install the version that comes with Identity Governance and is configured to run only with Identity Governance. This version uses the Identity Governance security module to determine who has access to the reports. Installed this way, you can run both Identity Manager and Identity Governance reports by configuring an external data source where you store the data. However, Identity Reporting cannot be utilized for Data Collection in Identity Manager.
The second version of Identity Reporting ships with Identity Manager. If you already have an Identity Manager environment and you want to utilize Data Collection, you must use this version of Identity Reporting. It uses the Identity Manager security module to determine who has access to the reports. It can run both the Identity Manager and Identity Governance reports by configuring an external data source where you store the data.
You can also install both versions of Identity Reporting in the Identity Governance environment and in the Identity Manager environment so that each system has its own reporting environment. However, installing Identity Reporting this way requires that you deploy, configure, and run reports on two different servers. For more information about Identity Reporting, see the Administrator Guide to NetIQ Identity Reporting.
Identity Reporting uses one database. Use the following information to help you correctly complete the Identity Reporting installation with the datase:
If you use a PostgreSQL database, you must allow the installation program for Identity Governance to create the schema, tables, and views for the PostgreSQL database.
If you use an Oracle database, you must create the database (SID) in AL32UTF-8 (Unicode UTF-8 Universal character set) before installing Identity Reporting.
You must run the Identity Reporting database in the same subnetwork as your Identity Governance server.
You can establish the Identity Reporting database in the same way as you do for the Identity Governance database. For more information, see Section 1.3, Understanding the Identity Governance Databases.