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Enterprise Reporter 3.5 - Report Manager User Guide

Table of Contents

Quest Enterprise Reporter Report Manager

Quest Enterprise Reporter Report Manager

Introducing the Report Manager

Starting the Report Manager Finding Answers and Getting Help An Overview of the Report Manager Security Explaining My Reports, Published Reports, and the Report Library

What are My Reports? What are Published Reports? What is the Report Library?

Reports Included in Enterprise Reporter

Active Directory Reports Azure Reports Computer Reports Enterprise Reporter System Reports Exchange Reports File Storage Analysis Reports

File Categories Folder Categories

Hybrid Reports Microsoft SQL Server Reports NTFS Reports Office 365 Reports Registry Reports Security Explorer Remediation Reports

Report Types Included in Enterprise Reporter

Active Directory Report Types Azure Active Directory Report Types Azure Resource Report Types Common Objects Report Types Computer Report Types Exchange Report Types Exchange Online Report Types File Storage Analysis Report Types Microsoft Teams Report Types NTFS Report Types OneDrive Report Types Registry Report Types SharePoint Online Report Types SQL Server Report Types

Configuring Global Settings (System Configuration)

Running and Scheduling Reports

Running Reports

Running Category Reports

Showing and Applying Category Report Parameters Change the Category Report View Navigating Within a Category Report

Running Regular Reports Running Reports or Exporting Reports to CSVand Other Formats from Different Containers Entering Parameter Values Searching for Parameter Values Importing Parameter Values Using Saved Parameters Searching for a Report Viewing Report Properties Previewing a Report Printing a Report Exporting a Report to Other Formats

Configuring a Default SMTP Server Scheduling Reports

Creating a Schedule

Delivering Scheduled Reports by Email

Types of Schedules

Run Your Schedule Once Run Your Schedule on a Daily Interval Run Your Schedule on Specified Days of the Week Run Your Schedule on a Specified Day of the Month Run Your Schedule Yearly

Working with Schedules

Adding Reports to a Schedule Editing Report Output Options on a Schedule Removing Reports from a Schedule Deleting a Schedule Running a Schedule Disabling or Enabling a Schedule Viewing Schedule History Transferring Ownership of Schedules

Troubleshooting Scheduling Issues

Using the Credential Manager

Changing passwords using the Credential Manager Changing account names using the Credential Manager

Organizing Reports

Working with Report Categories Moving Reports Copying Reports Deleting Reports

Creating and Editing Reports

Editing Reports

Using My Reports Changing the report icon Modifying the Fields to be Included

Performing Calculations Within a Report Indicating Data Age on a Report

Working with Report Parameters

What is a Parameter? Types of Parameters Parameter Operators Custom Query Data Types Working with Parameters

Changing the Layout Report Modification Example

Creating New Reports

Creating Report Layouts Setting CSV File Export Options Exporting and Importing Report Definitions

Report Designer Tips and Tricks

Report Bands Binding a Data Field to a Control Adding a Parameter Field to a Report Layout Adding a New Grouping to a Report Layout Adding a New Column to a Table Formatting Rules: Hiding or Showing a Field Based on Data Values Creating a Calculated Field Creating a Script to Run with a Report

Publishing Reports Integrating with SSRS

Configuring SSRS Publishing Reports to SSRS

Troubleshooting Issues with Enterprise Reporter

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 Report Manager Activity Exporting Logs from the Report Manager Resolving Issues in the Report Manager

What To Do if the Data in Your Report is Not What You Expect Other Issues Viewing information about your Enterprise Reporter configuration

Troubleshooting Issues with SSRS

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

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

Creating a cluster

The New-ERCluster cmdlet creates a new cluster in Enterprise Reporter Configuration Manager on which discoveries can be run. Nodes are associated with this cluster, which can be installed on systems in remote locations to allow jobs to run closer to the physical location.

New-ERCluster [-Name] <String> [[-Description] <String>] [[-SharedDataLocation] <String>] [[-ConnectionTimeout] <String>] [[-CommandTimeout] <String>]


	NOTE: The only parameter that is required is Name. All other variables can be added at a different time. Any parameter that contains a space must be enclosed in quotation marks.

In this example, the new cluster named Second Cluster is created.

New-ERCluster -Name "Second Cluster" -Description "This is a test description" –SharedDataLocation C:\Shared -ConnectionTimeout 100 -CommandTimeout 500

Creating a node

The Add-ERNode cmdlet creates a new node that is associated with a cluster in Enterprise Reporter Configuration Manager. Nodes run the jobs assigned to them by the cluster. A cluster can have numerous nodes installed on different systems, which allows for more efficient processing of jobs and returns quicker results.

Add-ERNode [-Cluster] <String> [-ComputerName] <String> [-Credential] <PSCredential> [[-MaxJobSlots] <Int32>]


	NOTE: Only the -MaxJobSlots parameter is optional; all other parameters must be supplied.

This example involves a three step process. The first step encrypts the password used by the service account before sending it across the network. The second step combines the encrypted password with the service account into a new system object containing the credentials for the service account. The third step indicates the cluster, identifies the server where the node is to be installed, supplies the credentials, and defines how many jobs slots the node is to use.

secpasswd = ConvertTo-SecureString 'pA$$w0d' -AsPlainText -Force

credentials = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ('AMER\Administrator', $secpasswd)

Add-ERNode "Second Cluster" "AMERGEN02" $credentials 5

Now the cluster named Second Cluster, which was created in the previous example (see Creating a cluster), has a node associated with it and is ready to run a job.

Disabling a node

There are times when a system may require maintenance or be taken down for some specific reason. During these times you will want to disable the node installed on that system. Disabling the node allows the cluster to manage the jobs based on the remaining nodes that are available for work.


	NOTE: Even though you may have disabled a node, any jobs running on the node continue to be processed until completed. Only new jobs are not assigned to the node. Therefore, if maintenance is planned for the system, consider disabling the node in plenty of time for any job to finish.

Disable-ERNode [-Node] <Node> [-CancelTasks [<SwitchParameter>]] [-PassThru [<SwitchParameter>]]

Disable-ERNode [-Cluster] <String> [-ComputerName] <String> [-CancelTasks [<SwitchParameter>]] [-PassThru [<SwitchParameter>]]

In this example, the node associated with the cluster named First Cluster that is installed on the computer named AMERGEN01 is disabled.

Disable-ERNode -Cluster "First Cluster" -ComputerName AMERGEN01

In this example, the node information is stored in the variable $node. The information contained in $node is then used as input to the Disable-ERNode cmdlet.

$node = Get-ERNode -Node AMERGEN01.amer.sitraka.com

Disable-ERNode -Node $node

Enabling a node

Once any work has been done on the system and you want to bring the node back into use, you need to enable the node so that the cluster knows the node is available and ready for work. Once the node is enabled, the cluster will assign the jobs waiting to be processed.

Enable-ERNode [-Node] <Node> [-PassThru [<SwitchParameter>]]

Enable-ERNode [-Cluster] <String> [-ComputerName] <String> [-PassThru [<SwitchParameter>]]

In this example, the node associated with the cluster named First Cluster that is installed on the computer named AMERGEN01 is enabled.

Enable-ERNode -Cluster "First Cluster" -Passthru -ComputerName AMERGEN01

In this example, the node information is stored in the variable $node. The information contained in $node is then used as input to the Enable-ERNode cmdlet.

$node = Get-ERNode -Node AMERGEN01.amer.sitraka.com

Enable-ERNode -Node $node

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