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Enterprise Reporter 3.5 - 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 Overview of Enterprise Reporter communications and required credentials Installing Enterprise Reporter Step-By-Step Walkthroughs

Configure Enterprise Reporter Licenses

You need either a trial or full license to use Enterprise Reporter. You must have a valid license to use the Configuration Manager; no license is required for the Report Manager. If you have questions about your license, contact your sales representative.

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Enterprise Reporter for Windows Servers

Enterprise Reporter for Active Directory

Enterprise Reporter for SQL Server

Enterprise Reporter for File Storage Analysis

Enterprise Reporter for Exchange

Enterprise Reporter for Office 365

Enterprise Reporter Suite

Activating or Updating Your License

Activate or update your license in the Configuration Manager on the System | Information page.

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Click Update License and navigate to your license file.
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Click Open.

Create Your First Enterprise Reporter Cluster and Node

The Configuration Manager contains a wizard that walks you through the process of creating clusters and nodes. You can create a cluster without a node, and add the nodes later, but you will not be able to run a discovery without an enabled node.

Select No network share specified.

For more information, see Things to Consider Before Creating a Cluster in the Quest Enterprise Reporter Configuration Manager User Guide.

If desired provide a description.

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Click Next.
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Click Add to browse to the computer where the node is to be created.
If the account you want is not on the list, click Add, enter the account, and select it from the list.

For more information, see Using the Credential Manager in the Quest Enterprise Reporter Configuration Manager User Guide.

To use SQL credentials to connect to the database, select Database Credential, choose SQL Authentication, and select the SQL account from the Credential Manager.

For more information, see Nodes in the Quest Enterprise Reporter Configuration Manager User Guide.

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Click Finish.

The new node appears on the Discovery Nodes tab. Your node will be enabled, unless you cleared the Enable the nodes check box.

For a listing of possible node statuses, see What does the status of a node or cluster indicate? in the Quest Enterprise Reporter Configuration Manager User Guide.

 

For more information, see Enabling a Cluster in the Quest Enterprise Reporter Configuration Manager User Guide.

Step-By-Step Walkthroughs

Enterprise Reporter is a very flexible reporting tool, that can be used for many different purposes. This section uses examples of common uses to highlight how to set up Enterprise Reporter to maximize its potential.

Pre- and Post-Migration Assessment — Assess your network environment before migrating to identify any issues, and re-assess once the migration is complete to ensure that everything went as planned.
Manage Compliance — Set up reports to automatically generate and be delivered, minimizing the time you have to spend demonstrating compliance.
Change History Reporting — Track changes in your network environment using Change History Reporting. You can monitor changes to hardware, SQL databases, files, folders and so on.
File Storage Consolidation — Prepare for storage migration by identifying and excluding from migration files that are unused, orphaned, or are in violation of your storage usage policy.
Office 365 and Azure Reporting - Assess your Office 365 and Azure usage and configuration.

This walkthrough will guide you through each of these use cases for Enterprise Reporter. Each scenario shows you how to leverage Enterprise Reporter to get the information you want when you need it.

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