Report screens

The BMC Defender Server Reports application provides general utility in the reporting of both raw and correlated message information. Various diverse reporting tools are provided to support forensics, auditing, analysis, and management of event data.

These BMC Defender Server tools, accessed using the Reports tab, include a Query capability, that allows you to perform complex queries on message (and other) data, as well as an Audit facility that creates reports suitable for audit and forensics. Other reporting applications include a graphing facility, as well as a comprehensive PDF reporting facility.

The Reports facility supports background job control, where you execute a program needed to generate a report, and then monitors the progress of the background process using a status line depicted at the top of the report screen. Many reports (such as the PDF, E-Mail, and Pivot reports) are launched automatically at midnight or on demand using the web interface.

In particular, the system comes with ready-to-run reports, ad-hoc reporting, and the ability to create new reports, all of that can be distributed using RSS or by using standard e-mail. Report information can also be loaded into one or more ODBC compliant SQL database, allowing third-party report writers to access this data, and permitting complex queries of report data to be executed using a special ODBC support tool.

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