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organized by location, departments, or any other logical business unit. This summarized information enables you to assess trends in your storage environment, which you can then analyze to assign responsibility.

If you are a storage administrator, you can use Enterprise Reporter to identify capacity trends, review storage inventory, and determine how much storage costs per business unit. With this information in hand, you can promote storage accountability and drive down costs.

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Use Enterprise Reporter to answer questions like:

Which applications are growing out of control?

What will my tier 1 storage growth look like in 2008?

How is capacity trending in North America versus Europe?

How is storage allocated in the finance department?

Which department is taking up the most percentage of tier 1 storage in the Toronto data center?

Storage administrators and business users operate Enterprise Reporter with CommandCentral Storage. Where CommandCentral Storage provides storage reporting for a single data center and is used at an operational level, Enterprise Reporter allows you to aggregate storage information from multiple data centers and view storage assets by a variety of business dimensions. For example, if you are a business information executive, you could use Enterprise Reporter to identify the trend of unclaimed tier 1 storage in your New York and Zurich data centers. You could then ask the storage administrators at each site to use CommandCentral Storage to drill down to the details of which arrays or LUNs are unclaimed.

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Contents Veritas CommandCentral Getting Started Guide Legal Notice CommandCentral Getting Started GuideSymantec Corporation Stevens Creek Blvd Cupertino, CA Contacting Technical Support Technical SupportLicensing and registration Customer serviceAdditional enterprise services Maintenance agreement resourcesThis document includes the following topics About the CommandCentral familyAbout Veritas CommandCentral Storage What’s new in CommandCentral Storage Management and discoveryEnhanced agentless discovery of storage resources Discovery of replication objects for HP EVA storage arrays Improved Data Module file scanningReporting Sybase ASE 15 supportAdded in-context performance reports for certain objects Added the Switch Port Usage Trend report InstallationVxVM volumes New sample ad hoc reportsOther enhancements Reduced media and install footprint for the managed hostWindows Server 2008 support Red Hat Linux 5.0 supportHotfix deployment mechanism Ability to set new managed hosts in unmanaged stateWhat you can do with CommandCentral Storage Managing the storage network introductionStorage network technologies Storage virtualization Storage administrator requirementsVersatile displays of information about storage resources Discovery of storage resourcesPolicies for managing resources Data collectionStorage provisioning About Veritas CommandCentral Storage Change ManagerWhat you can do with CommandCentral Storage Change Manager How CommandCentral Storage Change Manager works About Veritas CommandCentral Enterprise ReporterReport types and scopes Data rollup enhancements Whats new in CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter 5.0 MP1Inclusion of NetApp unified storage device data Inclusion of custom storage object attributesReporting enhancements Storage tier rule builder enhancementsData source preparation enhancements Data rollup view enhancementsNetApp Volumes Dashboard customization with selected reportsNew package and metrics SSL mode What you can do with CommandCentral Enterprise ReporterReport access enhancements Security enhancementsHow CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter works Getting CommandCentral up and running System requirements for CommandCentralSupported operating systems for CommandCentral Installation overview Web browser support for the CommandCentral ConsoleComponent Operating systems supported Where to find more information about CommandCentral CommandCentral on the WebGetting help About CommandCentral Storage documentation About CommandCentral documentationAbout CommandCentral Storage Change Manager documentation Commenting on product documentation About CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter documentationStoragemanagementdocs@symantec.com Page See CommandCentral Storage Alarm Service FlexVol volumes. See also volumeSee CommandCentral Storage Alert Manager Database and Veritas NetBackup are examples of applicationsSee Symantec Product Authentication Service To configuration settingsSee Symantec Product Authorization Service See Command Central Configuration UtilityVirtualization servers Service commands and queriesKernel-to-kernel broadcasts Users can monitor, define, and modify policiesSee CommandCentral Storage Console Groups. Contrast with unconfigured storageSee CommandCentral Storage database Data to users through a standard Web browserThat store data. Also storage device Data is stored in the CommandCentral Storage databaseAlso OS handle Extended discoveryAt least one FC switch and may also contain zones Feature. See also discoveryHas occurred for one or more objects on the storage network Information about them. See also discoveryGroup Displays the correct object typeOn specific applications Explorer was known as the Mgex explorerPage See Veritas NetBackup Accessibility from specified SAN-attached hostsAvailable storage Was known as the AgentPage Types for storage, networking, and application services That acts as a virtual subvolume with special attributesExtent pool storage array Component such as an IP address or mounted file systemTo peripheral devices such as disk and media drives Routinely whenever an in-band explorer executesStorage device fixed disk attached to a Scsi bus Several managed hostsSee also hard zoning Language or protocolSee SAN See deviceMark that is recorded between backup images on a tape Symantec Product Authentication ServiceBetween them Console Task Status tabSee NetApp unified storage SecuritySee Vail A wide range of applications in multiplatform environmentsCorresponds to the system’s host name. See also IP address They were fabric capableApplications as if it were a physical computer See virtual fabricSee CommandCentral Storage Web Engine See Veritas Volume ManagerAn extent pool. See also extent pool Aggregate’s disks and RAID groups. See also aggregateCommandCentral Glossary