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Enterprise Reporter 3.2.2 - Quick Start Guide

Introducing Quest® Enterprise Reporter Key Features of Enterprise Reporter Enterprise Reporter Components For information on installation, see Installing Enterprise Reporter . System Requirements An Overview of Enterprise Reporter Communications and Credentials Required Installing Enterprise Reporter Step-By-Step Walkthroughs

Change History Reporting

Enterprise Reporter can help you quickly identify changes that have occurred in your environment. If you enable change history, a record of all changes over time is kept. You can then report on these changes, and ensure that required changes have been made, or investigate unwanted changes. You can track changes to:

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Group membership
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Active Directory® domains
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Computers
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NTFS files, folders or shares
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Registry keys or values
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SQL servers or databases
Scenario

As part of your job, you are responsible for monitoring changes to critical services. Once a week, you must generate a report to ensure only expected changes are being made. Since collecting change history involves more data, you want to scale up your cluster to handle the increased traffic.

You will need to take the following steps:

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Add Another Node to a Cluster
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Enable Change History for the Computer Discovery Type
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Create and Schedule a Discovery
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Schedule the Report

Add Another Node to a Cluster

Each target is assigned to a node, balancing the distribution across the nodes until all the nodes are processing as many tasks as they are able. If no nodes are available to process the task, it must wait until a node becomes available.

When you run a computer discovery, each computer in the discovery is separate task that can be assigned to a node. In this case, adding nodes will speed up the performance of your discovery. This is particularly important as we are collecting change history data as well, which will increase the time taken to process each task.

In this scenario, you are going to add another node to handle collecting more data from a larger number of targets.

To create a node
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On the Manage Discovery Clusters pane, select the cluster you created.
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In the bottom pane, on the Discovery Nodes tab, click Add Node.
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Browse to the computer where the node is to be created, and click OK.
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Select the service account from the Credential Manager.
If you want to use a different account, you can add it to the Credential Manager.
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Click Add.
All other configuration is optional.

Enable Change History for the Computer Discovery Type

You configure change history at a global level for each discovery. All discoveries of that type will collect this data. When you create a discovery, the Name page indicates whether change history is enabled for the discovery type.

In this scenario, it is important to enable change history before running the first discovery, so that all changes are captured.

To enable history for a computer discovery
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On the Discovery Management | Configuration page, click Configure global change history settings.
A button shows the current status of the change history configuration for each discovery type.
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For the Computer discovery type, click Disabled to toggle the setting.
The button changes to Enabled, indicating that Change History data will be collected.
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Click Close.

Create and Schedule a Discovery

Since you need this weekly, you can create a weekly discovery. In this simple case, we are assuming that the targeted computers are located relatively close together. If they were very dispersed, you would create different discoveries in the appropriate cluster to ensure faster collections. Each computer should only be in one discovery, so while we are going to configure the discovery to collect the minimal needed data, if at a later time more information is needed, this discovery should be expanded, rather than creating a new one to gather the new data.

To create and schedule a computer discovery
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On the Manage Discoveries page of the Configuration Manager, select New Discovery | Computer.
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On the name page, enter Computer Services so you can identify the discovery easily once you have a list of discoveries.
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Since you only have one cluster, it is automatically selected, and you can click Next.
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On the Scopes page, click Add to choose your computers.
Browse to locate the computers, click Include, and click OK to close the Browse dialog box.
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On the Scopes page, click Import to add computers from a file.
Browse to locate the file containing the computers to add, select the file, click Open to start the import, review the import results, and click OK to close the results screen. For more information, see Importing Computers to Your Scopes.
For more information, see the Importing Computers to Your Scopes section of the Quest Enterprise Reporter Configuration Manager User Guide in the Technical Documentation.
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To shorten collection time, you can select only the options you want to collect. Click Deselect All and then select the Services check box.
Remember that if you later decide to collect more information from the targeted computers, you should edit this discovery, not create a new one.
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Click Next.
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Click Weekly and schedule the discovery to run once a week.
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Click Finish.
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