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ReportCenter Data Regions

Before you can run reports against your data, configure your ReportCenter data regions to collect the data you want and send it to ReportCenter to add to the database.

By default, a data region sends no data to ReportCenter, even if it collects the data for other purposes such as its own monitoring and alerting. You must explicitly specify that the data be sent to ReportCenter.

CA NetMaster NM for TCP/IP regions can send ReportCenter the hourly summaries of the data sampled by the various IP performance monitors.

CA NetMaster FTM regions can send ReportCenter the hourly activity rates aggregated from the individual file transfer events.

A data region can contain one or both of these products. The control region can also function as a data region.

All data collection set up tasks are performed from CA NetMaster's 3270 interface.

Important! To avoid the space and performance overhead of storing unknown and unwanted data in your database, send ReportCenter only the data on which you want to report. To evaluate which reports are relevant to your site, view the report examples.