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Reporting Service Architecture

The CA Access Control reporting service provides a server-based platform for CA Access Control enterprise reporting. You can use this platform to create reports that contain data from all your CA Access Control endpoints. The reports that you create can be viewed and managed over a web-enabled application.

The reporting service lets you build a reporting environment on top of an existing CA Access Control infrastructure.

Note: For more information about enterprise reporting, see the Enterprise Administration Guide.

The following diagram shows the architecture of reporting services components. The diagram also shows the flow of data among the components.

The preceding diagram illustrates the following:

• Each endpoint, which contains a CA Access Control database (seosdb) and any number of Policy Models (PMDB), has the Report Agent component installed.
• The Report Agent collects data from the endpoint and sends it to the Distribution Server for processing.
• In a simple enterprise model, one Distribution Server processes all endpoint data and sends it to the central database for storage. You can also replicate Distribution Server components to design for fault tolerance and faster processing in large enterprise environments.
• The central database (an RDBMS) stores endpoint data.
• The Report Portal lets you access the data in the central database to produce built-in reports, or to interrogate the data and produce custom reports.

More information:

How the Reporting Service Works