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About ODBC/JDBC Access in CA Enterprise Log Manager

CA Enterprise Log Manager provides read-only ODBC and JDBC access to the event log store to allow you to do the following things:

• Configure custom reports with an external reporting utility, like BusinessObjects' Crystal Reports
• Retrieve selected log information using external applications

These features allow you to create and format your own custom reports using log information already retrieved by CA Enterprise Log Manager. In addition, you can retrieve data for use with your existing correlation engines, malware detection packages, and other functions.

After installing the CA-supplied client on the system you plan to use to access the event log store, configure a connection to the data source and then begin retrieving data. The subscription service installs the server-side components.