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How to Request and View a Snapshot Report

Snapshot reports enable you to see the current state of a Identity Management environment. You can use this information to ensure compliance with internal business policies or external regulations.

You can generate snapshot reports from management data which describes the relationship between objects in Identity Management environment. Examples of management data include the following:

• Profile attributes of the users
• List of roles that contain a certain task
• The members of a role or group
• The rules that comprise a role

A snapshot report include data from the Snapshot Database, which contains information from the Identity Management object store and the user store. Depending upon the report type, your request to view a report is taken immediately or is sent for approval to the CSP administrator.

The following is a list of default snapshot reports available in Identity Management:

• Account Details Report
• Administration Report    
• Billing Report
• Endpoint Accounts Report 
• Endpoint Details Report  
• Non-Standard Accounts Report
• Non-Standard Accounts Trend Report
• Orphan Accounts Report   
• Role Administrators Report
• Role Members Report 
• Role Owners Report  
• Roles Report        
• Snapshots Report    
• Task Roles Report   
• User Accounts Report  
• User Entitlements Report
• User Profile Report     
• User Roles Report       

The following graphic illustrates the process to request and view a snapshot report:

To run the snapshot report, perform the following steps:

1. Verify prerequisites
2. Request and view a report
3. Depending on the time taken for the report to generate, do one of the following steps:
   • View the instant report
   • View the approved reports