Enterprise Reporter 3.5.1 - Configuration Manager User Guide

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Node Credential and Alternate Credential Details for On-Premises Discoveries Detailed permissions for Enterprise Reporter discoveries Permissions for Enterprise Reporter discoveries on NAS devices Permissions for Enterprise Reporter tenant applications Logged-In User Credentials Server Service Credentials

Changing the credentials used by the Enterprise Reporter Server

Using the Credential Manager

Changing Passwords Using the Credential Manager Changing Account Names Using the Credential Manager

Setting Up Your First Collection Computers (Nodes)

Configuring Clusters and Nodes for Effective Data Collection Things to Consider Before Creating a Cluster Creating Your First Cluster and Node

Modifying Your Deployment

Managing Clusters

When Do You Add a Cluster? Modifying a Cluster Deleting a Cluster Disabling a Cluster What To Do if a Cluster is Disabled Enabling a Cluster

Managing Nodes

Modifying Node Credentials Modifying the Location of Node Temporary Files Changing a Node to a Different Cluster Removing a Node Why Disable a Node? Stopping a Node Enabling a Node Starting a Node

What does the status of a node or cluster indicate?

Configuring Global Settings

Configuring Change History Configure Logging Credential Manager Database Settings Configuring Email Notifications Registering an Application for Exchange Online Email Delivery

Registering and configuring an application through Azure Active Directory

Managing the Collection of Additional Attributes Configuring IT Security Search Configuring a NAS Host Device Configuring Server Error Notification Managing Tenant Applications Managing the Logon Configuration

Customizing the Configuration Manager View

Understanding Discoveries

Defining the Data Collection (Discoveries) Multi-Factor Authentication Discovery Credential Limitations Best Practices for Creating Discoveries Improving the Performance of Your Discoveries

Adding a Node Improving the Performance of a Node

Discovery Permission Requirements

Detailed permissions for Enterprise Reporter discoveries Permissions for Enterprise Reporter discoveries on NAS devices Permissions for Enterprise Reporter tenant applications CM Understanding Discoveries.04.12.html

Creating Discoveries

Step 1. Create the Discovery (Name)

Configuring Tenant Applications for Cloud Discoveries

Step 2. Choose what to include in your discovery (Scopes)

Scopes: An Overview How Scopes Affect Tombstoning Using the Browser to Include and Exclude Scopes Including Objects in Your Scope Importing Computers to Your Scopes Refining Your Scope with Exclusions Filtering in the Browser Using Queries to Define Your Scopes Using Subnets to Define Your Scopes Using Subnet Credentials

Step 2a. Choose scopes for your on-premises discoveries

Choosing your Active Directory Scopes

AD Discovery: Include scopes AD Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions AD Discovery: Optionally select one or more domain controllers AD Discovery: Decide what to collect from any domain in the discovery

Choosing your Computer Scopes

Computer Discovery: Include scopes Computer Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions Computer Discovery: Decide what to collect from any computer in the discovery

Choosing Your Exchange Scopes

Exchange Discovery: Include Scopes Exchange Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions Exchange Discovery: Optionally select a domain controller Exchange Discovery: Decide what to collect from any server in the discovery

Choosing Your File Storage Analysis Scopes

File Storage Analysis Discovery: Include scopes File Storage Analysis Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions File Storage Analysis Discovery: Decide what to collect from any server in the discovery File Storage Analysis Discovery: Configure NAS Host Devices

Choosing Your Microsoft SQL Scopes

MS SQL Discovery: Include scopes MS SQL Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions (Scope Exclusions and Global Exclusions)

Choosing Your NTFS Scopes

NTFS Discovery: Best Practices NTFS Discovery: Include scopes NTFS Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions NTFS Discovery: Select your global scopes NTFS Discovery: Decide what to collect from any computer in the discovery NTFS Discovery: Configure NAS Host Devices NTFS Discovery: Configure your file collection

Choosing Your Registry Scopes

Registry Discovery: Include scopes Registry Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions Registry Discovery: Select your global scopes Registry Discovery: Decide what to collect from any computer

Step 2b: Choose scopes for your cloud discoveries

Choosing Your Azure Active Directory Scopes

Azure AD Discovery: Decide what to collect from the tenant in the discovery

Choosing Your Azure Resource Scopes

Azure Resource Discovery: Include Scopes Azure Resource Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions Azure Resource Discovery: Decide what to collect from the subscriptions in the discovery

Choosing Your Exchange Online Scopes

Exchange Online Discovery: Decide what to collect from the tenant in the discovery

Choosing Your Microsoft Teams Scopes

Microsoft Teams Discovery: Include Scopes Microsoft Teams Discovery: Decide what to collect from the subscriptions in the discovery

Choosing Your OneDrive Scopes

OneDrive Discovery: Include Scopes OneDrive Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions OneDrive Discovery: Decide what to collect from the drives in the discovery

Choosing Your SharePoint Online Scopes

SharePoint Online Discovery: Include Scopes SharePoint Online Discovery: Optionally refine your scope list with exclusions SharePoint Online Discovery: Decide what to collect from the tenant in the discovery

Step 3. Schedule your Discovery

Run your discovery once Run your discovery on a daily interval Run your discovery on specified days of the week Run your discovery on a specified day of the month Run Your Schedule Yearly Enabling and Disabling Discovery Schedules

Step 4: Review the summary

Managing Discoveries

How is a Discovery Processed?

Types of Tasks Manually Running a Discovery

Viewing your Discoveries

Navigating the Manage Discoveries Pane Viewing the History of a Discovery What Does the Discovery Status Indicate? Viewing the Tasks for a Finished Discovery Viewing the Tasks for a Processing Discovery What Does the Task Status Indicate? Why is My View Empty? Viewing Errors and Error Suppressions Suppressing Discovery Errors Viewing Statistics Viewing a Cluster's Queue

Working with Discoveries and Tasks

Duplicating a Discovery Modifying a Discovery Canceling a Task or Discovery Deleting a Discovery

Troubleshooting Issues with Enterprise Reporter

Problems Opening the Consoles Troubleshooting connectivity issues

Restoring a connection to the Enterprise Reporter Server Restoring a connection to the Enterprise Reporter database

Troubleshooting Connection Timeouts Troubleshooting credential change failures Auditing Enterprise Reporter Activity Resolving Configuration Manager Issues

Node Issues

Node Deployment Issues Dealing with Unassociated Nodes Dealing with Faulted Nodes Problems Deleting a Node Changing the Node Logging Level Changing the Size of the Node Log Files

Scope Enumeration Issues Data Collection Issues

Computer Discovery Errors

Troubleshooting Features in Enterprise Reporter

Exporting Logs from the Configuration Manager Viewing information about your Enterprise Reporter configuration Viewing Errors and Statistics for Tasks

Moving the Enterprise Reporter database Disaster Recovery

Backing up Enterprise Reporter Deploying Enterprise Reporter to another computer after a disaster Checking the Enterprise Reporter configuration after recovery

Appendix: PowerShell cmdlets

What is Microsoft Windows PowerShell? What are cmdlets? Registering Enterprise Reporter cmdlets Adding the snap-ins automatically to new sessions Enterprise Reporter cmdlets Enabling Enterprise Reporter cmdlets Loading the Enterprise Reporter cmdlets Using cmdlets to manage clusters and nodes

Creating a cluster Creating a node Disabling a node Enabling a node Finding a node by name Piping cmdlets Finding a cluster by name Disabling a cluster Enabling a cluster

Using cmdlets to manage discoveries

Getting job information Creating a job Running a job Scheduling a job Deleting a job

Using cmdlets to run reports

Connecting to the server Getting report information Exporting a report definition Importing a report definition to a category Generating a report with data

Appendix: Encryption Key Manager

Starting the Encryption Key Manager Generating a key file Importing a key file Exporting a key file Resetting credentials

Appendix: Log Viewer

Starting the Enterprise Reporter Log Viewer Finding and opening log files Viewing and searching log file entries Filtering log file entries

Deleting a job

Syntax

Remove-ERJobDefinition [-JobDefinitionId] <Guid>

Remove-ERJobDefinition [-JobDefinition] <JobDefinition>

Remove-ERJobDefinition [-JobDefinitionName] <String>

Example 1

In this example, all job definitions that start with the letter A are piped into the Remove-ERJobDefinition cmdlet for deletion.

Get-ERJobDefinition a* | Remove-ERjobdefinition

Example 2

$job = Get-ERJobDefinition "AD Discovery"

Remove-ERJobDefinition $job

First, the job data is placed into the $job variable. Second, the Remove-ERJobDefinition is run with $job as the input.

Using cmdlets to run reports

Now that you have collected data for your environment, you will want to produce reports with the data. Normally this is done using the Report Manager, but there are a number of cmdlets available to provide reports. The examples in this section demonstrate how to run reports using cmdlets.

This section contains the following examples:

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Connecting to the server

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Getting report information

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Exporting a report definition

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Importing a report definition to a category

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Generating a report with data

Connecting to the server

Before you can use the report cmdlets, you must establish a connection to the Enterprise Reporter server. If you do not have your profile set up (see Loading the Enterprise Reporter cmdlets), you will need to establish a connection.

Syntax

Connect-ERReportingServer [-Server] <String> [[-Port] <Int32>]

Example

In this example, a connection is established to the AMERGEN01 server through port 7738.

Connect-ERReportingServer -Server AMERGEN01 -Port 7738

Getting report information

Report Manager has a report library that is broken into a logical folder structure with reports in each folder. The functional cmdlets require the ID and path associated with each report and not just the report name. To get the report ID and path, use the Get-ERReport cmdlet. You can use wildcard expressions with this cmdlet. The wildcard search is performed on the full report path including folder names and report name.

Syntax

Get-ERReport [[-ReportName] <String>]

Example 1

This example returns all information on the Domain Accounts report.

Get-ERReport "*\Active Directory\Domain Accounts*"

Output

Id CategoryPath ReportName

-- ------------ ----------

58355095-75ee-4d21-9c11-1ccc15cbe3e3 Report Library\Active Directory Domain Accounts

Example 2

This example returns all the reports that begin with Domain.

Get-ERReport "*\Active Directory\Domain*"

Output

Id CategoryPath ReportName

-- ------------ ----------

58355095-75ee-4d21-9c11-1ccc15cbe3e3 Report Library\Active Directory Domain Accounts

e4067d44-b100-46e9-94da-8c3348584b50 Report Library\Active Directory Domain Computer Information

59143e6b-cf55-4aa7-b70c-69c2b5b61659 Report Library\Active Directory Domain Controller Information

584229c5-dc71-4107-a0e5-38a2a6d4b8de Report Library\Active Directory Domain Groups with Members

e6cf50aa-6078-4be8-aa92-3b0850264855 Report Library\Active Directory Domain Groups without Members

c49948e9-0337-47bd-bd48-e5cbf861391f Report Library\Active Directory Domain Groups

e4067d44-b100-46e9-94da-8c3348584b50 Report Library\Active Directory Domain Hidden Computers

237e4518-b843-4af7-911d-2b0ed62f1001 Report Library\Active Directory Domain Sites

92e8568c-850d-416a-8b2b-3b01ad0f1b43 Report Library\Active Directory Domain Summary

b41d8e07-d0f4-46da-a2ae-bdd96992a12b Report Library\Active Directory Domain Trusts

73d3a6b2-95d7-4690-9aad-3fdf39dac04e Report Library\Active Directory Domain Users with Recent Logons

73d3a6b2-95d7-4690-9aad-3fdf39dac04e Report Library\Active Directory Domain Users without Recent Logons

95ccdb73-b815-47d2-af98-bc359201b6cd Report Library\Active Directory Domain Users

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