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Example: Federation Map for a Large Enterprise

When creating a federation map, consider the types of reports for which you want different sets of consolidated data. For example, consider the scenario where you want consolidated data using three types of server groupings:

• All servers

  For system reports on self-monitoring events, including all servers lets you evaluate the health of your entire CA User Activity Reporting Module network of servers at once.

• All reporting servers

  For summary and trend reports, where you want to examine data collected by all agents that send data to all collection servers while sparing your collection servers from processing queries on new, hot events, you need to run federated reports that include only reporting servers.

• A set of collection servers with their reporting server

  For reports where you want data limited to a locale with one reporting server, but you want that report to include the events not yet sent to that server by its collection servers, you need to run federated reports on this subset of servers.

An example federation map that lets you meet these reporting objectives follows:

To implement the design of this federation map, you would take the following actions:

• Create a hierarchical federation from the management server to one collection server related to each reporting server, where the management server is the Parent and each collection server is the Child.
• Create a fully meshed federation among collection servers for each reporting server.
• Create a hierarchical federation from each collection server to its reporting server, where the collection server is the Parent and the reporting server is the Child.
• Create a fully meshed federation among the reporting servers.

To meet a given reporting objective, it is important to run the report from a server represented by a particular location on your federation map. Examples follow:

• To generate a system report on self-monitoring events that occur on each CA User Activity Reporting Module in your network, run the report from the management server.
• To generate summary and trend reports from all reporting servers on your network, run the report from any reporting server.
• To generate a report on data residing on a reporting server and its collection servers, run the report from one of those collection servers.