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Reporting Service

CA Access Control for Virtual Environments reporting service lets you view the security status of each endpoint (users, groups, and resources) in a central location. The collection of data from each endpoint can be scheduled or on demand. You do not need to connect to each endpoint to find out who is authorized to access which resource. CA Access Control for Virtual Environments reporting service, once set up, works independently to collect data from each endpoint and report it to a central server and continues to report endpoint status without the need for manual intervention.

CA Access Control reporting service is useful for BS 7799/ISO 17799, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Payment Card Industry (PCI), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) environments, and others. It offers a solution wherever you must know the status of users, groups, and resource access across thousands of endpoints.

The reporting service is structured to let you interrogate the data that is collected from each endpoint. You can build custom reports for a variety of purposes, or use the existing reports that CA Access Control for Virtual Environments provides by default. Because the reporting service is server-based, it lets you centralize report storage and management and provides secure access (SSL) to reports. The reporting service can be configured for high availability. You can install the reporting service components on a single server or in a distributed configuration.

Note: The reporting service components are external to the CA Access Control for Virtual Environments enforcement system and add value to an existing implementation without the need to reconfigure it.