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How the Reporting Service Works

The reporting service lets you examine the data that is collected from each managed device, the user store, and the PUPM policy store. To set up the reporting service correctly, you need to know how it works to collect, store, and generate reports from the data.

The reporting service does the following:

• Collects data from each managed device.

  Each managed device sends report data to the Message Queue.

• Stores the data in the central database.

  CA Access Control for Virtual Environments retrieves the report data from the Message Queue and stores it in the central database.

• Captures snapshots of the report data and stores it in the central database.

  CA Access Control for Virtual Environments captures PUPM report data as part of the snapshot.

• Generates reports from the stored data.

  Once there is data available in the central database, you use the Report Portal to generate reports and queries the stored data. The Report Portal is a CA Technologies version of the BusinessObjects InfoView portal, configured to connect to the central database, and bundled with the ready-made CA Access Control for Virtual Environments reports.

More information:

Reporting Service Architecture