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Reporting Service Components

The reporting service comprises the following core components:

• A Report Agent is a Windows service or a UNIX daemon that sends information to queues on a configured Message Queue that resides on the CA Access Control Server.
• A Message Queue is a component of the CA Access Control Server that is configured for receiving endpoint information that Report Agents send. For reporting, the Message Queue forwards endpoint database snapshots from to the central database.
• A central database is a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) that holds information for CA Access Control Enterprise Management functionality, including reporting. You can use various tools to interrogate the data stored in the database about your CA Access Control implementation.
• A Report Portal is an application server that serves CA Access Control reports. The server uses BusinessObjects InfoView portal to let you interact with the reporting information that is stored on the central database.
• Enterprise Management Server is used to read reporting data from the Message Queue and store the data in the central database.
• Built-in reports are included to let you easily present data for common reporting scenarios.