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SiteMinder Reports

This section contains the following topics:

Report Descriptions

Schedule a CA SiteMinder® Report

View CA SiteMinder® Reports

Delete CA SiteMinder® Reports

Report Descriptions

SiteMinder reports are organized into two groups:

Audit reports are created from existing audit capabilities of the Policy Server. The Policy Server must be configured to write to a database.

Analysis reports are based on run-time policy evaluation, for example, evaluating which users can perform what tasks.

You can generate the following reports using the SiteMinder Administrative UI:

Activity By User

Lists activities of all users during the specified time period.

Administrative Operations by Administrator

Lists all administrative operations in the policy store by administrator.

Applications

Lists all configured applications that the user is authorized to use.

Applications by User

Lists all users for a given set of applications.

Denied Authorizations

Lists all denied authorizations.

Denied Resources

Lists all denials of requested resources.

Policies by Role

Lists all policies for a specified set of roles in an application.

Protected Resources

Lists all protected resources (realm + rule filter).

Resource Activity

Lists all authentication and authorization activity by resource.

Resources by User

Lists all resources for a specified set of users.

Roles by Application

Lists all roles that are defined for each specified application.

Roles by Resource

Lists all roles that are defined for a specified resource.

Users by Resource

Lists all users that are associated with each specified resource. When you run this report, ensure that you set a valid Universal ID in the user directory.

Users by Role

Lists all users that belong to a specified role.

Schedule a CA SiteMinder® Report

You can schedule a CA SiteMinder® audit or analysis report under Reports in the Administrative UI.

Follow these steps:

  1. Click Reports,Audit or Analysis.
  2. Select the report that you want.
  3. Fill in all the required parameters. These parameters vary depending on the type of report.
  4. Click Next.
  5. Select one option from the drop-down list.
  6. Enter a description.
  7. Click Submit.

View CA SiteMinder® Reports

On the Reports tab in the Administrative UI, you can view any CA SiteMinder® report whose status is Complete. If the status is Failed, you can view the status details.

To view CA SiteMinder® reports

  1. Click Reports, General, View SiteMinder Reports.

    The SiteMinder Report Search pane appears.

  2. Click the radio button for the report you want to view. Note that the Status field must indicate that the report has completed.
  3. Click Select.

    The report is displayed on the screen.

  4. (Optional) Click the file icon if you want to save the report to a file. Select the output file format from the drop-down list.
  5. (Optional) Click the printer icon to print the report.
  6. (Optional) You can page through the report or enter a search string.
  7. Click Close when you are finished viewing the report.

Delete CA SiteMinder® Reports

You can delete one or more CA SiteMinder® reports on the Reports tab of the Administrative UI.

To delete CA SiteMinder® reports

  1. Click Reports, General, Delete CA SiteMinder® Reports.

    The Delete CA SiteMinder® Reports pane opens.

  2. Search for CA SiteMinder® reports to delete by Report Name or Description or search for all CA SiteMinder® reports.
  3. Select one or more or all CA SiteMinder® reports to delete, and click Submit.

The Delete CA SiteMinder® Reports task is submitted for processing.