Symantec 5.1 manual About Veritas CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter

20Getting started with the CommandCentral family About Veritas CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter

■View reports that provide an enterprise–wide view of the changes made to your storage resources, a summary of the hosts and applications that have policies applied to them, and details about violations, including the time that it takes to resolve violations and the type of violations that have generated.

■Display an overall view of the current state of your data center. With the Dashboard, you can view graphs that detail the number of recent violations and changes. This allows you to identify current impacts and helps you to visualize storage change trends in your data center.

How CommandCentral Storage Change Manager works

The CommandCentral Storage Change Manager Management Server and managed hosts discover storage resources in your data center. When changes occur to those resources, CommandCentral Storage Change Manager detects and aggregates the changes. During the detection process, CommandCentral Storage Change Manager assesses the changes against custom policies and best practice policies. If a change violates a custom policy, CommandCentral Storage Change Manager generates a violation. If a change violates a best practice policy, CommandCentral Storage Change Manager generates a risk.

CommandCentral Storage Change Manager allows you to interact with the storage objects it discovers, the changes it detects, and the violations it generates through its Console. You can also use the Console to manage custom policies and best practice policies, configure devices, view reports, and manage user accounts.

About Veritas CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter

Veritas CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter by Symantec (Enterprise Reporter) improves storage service management by aligning IT to business objectives. Enterprise Reporter provides the following to business information executives and storage administrators alike:

■Global views of storage assets mapped to your organization

■Business insights into inventory utilization

■On-demand customized reporting

■Personalized dashboards for multiple users

Enterprise Reporter provides a central reporting interface for your storage infrastructure by unifying information from multiple data centers and categorizing it along lines of the business. If you are a business information executive, you can use Enterprise Reporter to view your storage environment at the enterprise level. You can then drill down into your organization's hierarchy, which could be