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How the Reporting Service Works

The reporting service lets you examine the data that is collected from each CA ControlMinder and UNAB endpoint, the user store, and the SAM 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 CA ControlMinder and UNAB endpoints.

  Each endpoint sends report data to the Message Queue on the Distribution Server.

• Stores the data in the central database.

  CA ControlMinder Enterprise Management 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 ControlMinder Enterprise Management captures SAM 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 interrogate 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 ControlMinder reports.

Note: For information about the reporting service architecture, see the Implementation Guide.

More information:

Reporting Service Architecture