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Enterprise Reporter 3.5.1 - Installation and Deployment Guide

Product Overview Installation Considerations for Enterprise Reporter Installing and Configuring Enterprise Reporter Managing Your Enterprise Reporter Deployment Troubleshooting Issues with Enterprise Reporter Appendix: Database Content Wizard Appendix: Encryption Key Manager Appendix: Log Viewer

Checking the Enterprise Reporter configuration after recovery

Start the Configuration Manager and check the health of the recovered Enterprise Reporter configuration.

To check the Enterprise Reporter Configuration after a recovery
1
Start the Configuration Manager.
2
Select Information.
Review and confirm all of the settings that Enterprise Reporter is currently using.
3
Click the Discovery Nodes tab.
All the nodes are displayed.
4
Remove any node with a status of Faulted by selecting the node and clicking Remove Node.
5
Select Yes on the popup message.
6
Select Discovery Management and click Manage Discoveries.
All of the discoveries should be available for use.
 
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NOTE: If a Shared Data Location is being used with the Clusters, then delete files located in the share as the data in this share will be out of date and will cause errors in the data in reports.

 

Appendix: Database Content Wizard

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Software Requirements
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Starting and Configuring the Enterprise Reporter Database Content Wizard
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Transferring an Enterprise Reporter Database
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Backing Up an Enterprise Reporter Database
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Restoring an Enterprise Reporter Database
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Cleaning an Enterprise Reporter Database
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Merging Two Enterprise Reporter Databases
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Running Custom Enterprise Reporter Scripts

The Enterprise Reporter Database Content Wizard can be started from the Windows Start menu or from within the main Database Wizard.

To run the Database Content Wizard, you must have control and alter permission on the database. During installation, if the sa account is not selected, the Enterprise Reporter service account is added as a member of the Discovery_Admin_Role and Discovery_Nodes_Role roles. Both accounts have control and alter database permissions.

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NOTE: The Merge and Clean tasks can be destructive so it is highly recommended that only the db_owner runs those tasks. Control database level permissions has the same permissions as db_owner except that it can be assigned or removed by db_owner. Control database level permission has the same permissions as db_owner except that it can be assigned or removed by db_owner.

The Enterprise Reporter Database Content Wizard allows you to perform the following tasks on the information stored in Enterprise Reporter SQL Server® Databases:

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Configuration information (Clusters and Nodes, Discoveries, and Reports)
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Transfer
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Backup
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Restore
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Collected data
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Clean
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Merge
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Custom scripts

Software Requirements

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PowerShell® 3.0

Starting and Configuring the Enterprise Reporter Database Content Wizard

To start and configure the Enterprise Reporter Database Content Wizard
1
Start the main Database Wizard by clicking the Start menu, and select All Programs | Quest | Enterprise Reporter | Database Content Wizard.
2
Optionally, click Advanced Settings to configure how long the server will wait for a response.
3
Optionally, set the SQL Server Connection Timeout.
4
Optionally, set the SQL Server Command Timeout.
5
Optionally, click Reset to defaults to restore both timeouts to 60 seconds.
6
Click OK.
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