• Become a portal pro
• Download
• Print
• My Downloads ()

• Support
• Technical Documentation
• Enterprise Reporter 3.5
• Enterprise Reporter 3.5 - Configuration Manager User Guide

Enterprise Reporter 3.5 - Configuration Manager User Guide

Table of Contents  

Product Overview

Key Features of Enterprise Reporter Components of Enterprise Reporter

The Configuration Manager

An Overview of the Configuration Manager Clusters Shared Data Locations Nodes Discoveries Role of the Server

The Report Manager The Database Wizard and Database Content Wizard The Encryption Key Manager SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)

Summarizing the Workflow

Configuring the Configuration Manager

Starting the Configuration Manager Finding answers and getting help Overview of Enterprise Reporter Communications and Credentials Required

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 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 Minimum Permissions for Enterprise Reporter Discoveries CM Understanding Discoveries.04.13.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

• Viewing Topics 221 - 224 of 245

×

Disabling a cluster

As with nodes, there are times when a system may require maintenance or you may want to stop the processing of specific jobs for some specific reason. During these times you will want to disable the cluster. Disable a cluster, effectively stopping new jobs and tasks from starting on any nodes within that cluster.

NOTE: Even though you may have disabled a cluster, any jobs running on the cluster will continue to run until completed. Disabling the cluster will disable all the nodes associated with it.

Syntax

Disable-ERCluster [-Cluster] <Cluster> [-CancelJobs [<SwitchParameter>]] [-PassThru [<SwitchParameter>]]

Disable-ERCluster [-Name] <String> [-CancelJobs [<SwitchParameter>]] [-PassThru [<SwitchParameter>]]

Example 1

In this example, the cluster named First Cluster is disabled.

Disable-ERCluster -Name "First Cluster"

Example 2

In this example, jobs scheduled to run on the cluster named First Cluster are canceled, and then the cluster is disabled. Jobs currently running will finish even though the cluster is disabled.

Disable-ERCluster "First Cluster" -CancelJobs

Example 3

In this example, the Get-ERCluster cmdlet first retrieves information about the cluster named First Cluster, and then stores it in the $cluster variable. Next, the cluster with the name stored in the $cluster.name variable is disabled.

If the Get-ERCluster cmdlet is run without identifying a cluster, it returns the information on all clusters. This technique can be useful when there are a number of clusters since they can be looped through disabling each one.

$cluster = Get-ERCluster “First Cluster”

Disable-ERCluster $cluster.name

Example 4

In this example, the Get-ERCluster cmdlet retrieves information for the cluster named Second Cluster and pipes it into the Disable-ERCluster cmdlet.

Get-ERCluster "Second Cluster" | Disable-ERCluster

Enabling a cluster

Once a cluster is enabled, the nodes assigned to the cluster start processing jobs. As with disabling the cluster, enabling the cluster will enable all the nodes associated with it.

Syntax

Enable-ERCluster [-Cluster] <Cluster> [-PassThru [<SwitchParameter>]] [<CommonParameters>]

Enable-ERCluster [-Name] <String> [-PassThru [<SwitchParameter>]] [<CommonParameters>]

Example 1

This example enables the cluster named First Cluster.

Enable-ERCluster "First Cluster"

Example 2

This example first stores cluster information in the $cluster variable, and then uses it as input to the Enable-ERCluster cmdlet. Note that the cluster name does not need to be parsed out and passed to the Enable-ERCluster cmdlet.

$cluster = Get-ERCluster

Enable-ERCluster $cluster

Example 2

This example uses Get-ERCluster to retrieve information for the cluster named First Cluster and pipes it to the Enable-ERCluster cmdlet.

Get-ERCluster -Cluster "First Cluster" | Enable-ERCluster

Using cmdlets to manage discoveries

An important aspect of Enterprise Reporter, discoveries return information about the systems in your environment. Discoveries gather data about Active Directory, computers, SQL Server, and NTFS permissions for files and folders. When using Enterprise Reporter cmdlets, discoveries are referred to as jobs. The examples in this section demonstrate how to create and run jobs using cmdlets.

This section contains the following examples:

•	Getting job information

•	Creating a job

•	Running a job

•	Scheduling a job

•	Enabling a cluster

Getting job information

You probably have configured and run discoveries in the Enterprise Reporter Configuration Manager. These job definitions are useful in understanding how the cmdlets work and provide good examples for you to follow when creating new jobs using cmdlets. The Get-ERJobDefinition cmdlet returns information on the jobs.

Syntax

Get-ERJobDefinition [-ClusterId <Nullable`1[Guid]>] [-ClusterName <String>] [-JobDefinitionName] <String>

Get-ERJobDefinition [-Unassigned [<SwitchParameter>]]

Get-ERJobDefinition -JobDefinitionId <Guid>

Get-ERJobDefinition -JobDefinition <JobDefinition>

Example 1

In this example, information about a job identified with the name of Active Directory is returned.

Get-ERJobDefinition -JobDefinitionName "Active Directory"

Output

JobDefinitionId : ecaae8bb-f0f8-48ee-91ff-da959a937dfa

JobTypeId : bec47934-cadf-4b94-8ff7-68efadc88165

Name : Active Directory

Description :

Configuration : <DiscoveryResolutionTask subType="ActiveDirectory"><Scopes><Scope

type="ActiveDirectory"><Content><Root class="Domain" inex="Include"><Ldap>LDAP:

//AMER.amer.sitraka.com/DC=AMER,DC=amer,DC=sitraka,DC=com</Ldap><Dns>

AMER.amer.sitraka.com</Dns><DC>AMERGENDC.AMER.amer.sitraka.com</DC>

</Root></Content></Scope></Scopes><Parameters><Parameter

key="GatherSharedEntities"><Value>False</Value></Parameter><Parameter

key="CollectDCs"><Value>True</Value></Parameter><Parameter

key="CollectAccounts"><Value>True</Value></Parameter><Parameter

key="CollectComputers"><Value>True</Value></Parameter><Parameter

key="CollectOUs"><Value>True</Value></Parameter><Parameter

key="CollectSites"><Value>True</Value></Parameter><Parameter

key="CollectTrusts"><Value>True</Value></Parameter><Parameter

key="CollectPhysicalComputerInfo"><Value>False</Value></Parameter><Parameter

key="FindForeignMember"><Value>False</Value></Parameter><Parameter

key="SyncLogon"><Value>False</Value></Parameter><Parameter

key="CollectPermissions"><Value>False</Value></Parameter><Parameter

key="CollectRemoteServices"><Value>False</Value></Parameter><Parameter

key="CollectPhotosForUsers"><Value>False</Value></Parameter>

</Parameters></DiscoveryResolutionTask>

AssignedClusterId : af0e6da4-10b9-4b20-bf5a-f19f0d71b589

CredentialId :

AssignedClusterName : First Cluster

IsTombstoned : False

Schedule : <Trigger Type="RunOnceTrigger" StartDateTime="2014-07-14T13:50:00Z"

Expression="2014-07-14 13:50:00Z@0 50 13 14 7 ? 2014" />

NextRun :

Example 2

In this example, information about all the jobs (the * wildcard is used in -JobDefinitionName) located on the cluster named Second Cluster is returned.

Get-ERJobDefinition -ClusterName "Second Cluster" -JobDefinitionName *

Output

JobDefinitionId : 7a8d758b-15e8-4f84-a30e-1c8545eed4f5

JobTypeId : bec47934-cadf-4b94-8ff7-68efadc88165

Name : Computer

Description :

Configuration : <DiscoveryResolutionTask subType="Computer"><Scopes><Scope type="Computer">

<Content><Rootclass="Domain" inex="Include"><Ldap>LDAP://AMER.amer.sitraka.com

/DC=RPTCH,DC=dev,DC=hal,DC=ca,DC=qsft</Ldap><Dns>AMER.amer.sitraka.com

</Dns></Root></Content></Scope></Scopes><Parameters><Parameter

key="GatherSharedEntities"><Value>False</Value></Parameter><Parameter

key="CollectAccounts"><Value>True</Value></Parameter><Parameter

key="CollectEventLogConfig"><Value>True</Value></Parameter><Parameter

key="CollectPolicies"><Value>True</Value></Parameter><Parameter

key="CollectPrinters"><Value>True</Value></Parameter><Parameter

key="CollectServices"><Value>True</Value></Parameter><Parameter

key="CollectShares"><Value>True</Value></Parameter><Parameter

key="CollectVolumes"><Value>True</Value></Parameter><Parameter

key="CollectExtendedWMIEntities"><Value>True</Value></Parameter><Parameter

key="PingTimeout"><Value>0</Value></Parameter></Parameters>

</DiscoveryResolutionTask>

AssignedClusterId : 390b0bd1-6488-4ace-b2cc-616925b55c06

CredentialId :

AssignedClusterName : Second Cluster

IsTombstoned : False

Schedule : <Trigger Type="RunOnceTrigger" StartDateTime="2014-07-15T13:58:00Z"

Expression="2014-07-15 13:58:00Z@0 58 13 15 7 ? 2014" />

NextRun :

As you can see in these examples, there is a lot of information contained in the job definition. The largest and seemingly most complicated part is the configuration, which contains all of the information about the jobs that you created using the Discovery Wizard. For more information about the configuration, see Creating a job.

•  Previous
• Viewing Topics 221 - 224 of 245
• Next 

Search this document Search all documents for this product-version Search all documents for this product Search all documents

×

 Welcome to Quest Support

You can find online support help for Quest *product* on an affiliate support site. Click continue to be directed to the correct support content and assistance for *product*.

Related Documents

The document was helpful.

Select Rating

I easily found the information I needed.

Select Rating

© ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Terms of Use Privacy Cookie Preference Center