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User Guide for Cisco Secure Access Control System 5.4
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Managing Reports
The Monitoring and Report Viewer component of ACS collects log and configuration data from various
ACS servers in your deployment, aggregates it, and provides interactive reports that help you analyze
the data. The Monitoring and Report Viewer provides you integrated monitoring, rep orting, and
troubleshooting capabilities to efficiently manage your network and troubleshoot network-related
problems.
The Monitoring and Report Viewer offers you a powerful dashboard that you can use to monitor the
health of all ACS servers in your deployment. The dashboard also provides info rmation on network
access patterns and trends in traffic that you can use to administer your network efficiently.
The Monitoring and Report Viewer provides you real-time data and vital statistics that help you
proactively manage your network and prevent any attacks.
ACS comes with a set of predefined reports that you can run to obtain meaningful information from the
log and configuration data obtained from ACS servers. Table 13-2 lists the reports that are available in
ACS under various categories.
These reports provide information related to authentication, session traffic, device administration, ACS
server configuration and administration, and troubleshooting. You can view these reports as tables,
graphs, or charts and drill down further for more granular data.
Further, ACS allows you to:
•Filter the data in your report based on your requirements
•Export the report in a CSV format and print it
•Add the report to your list of favorites, from which you can access th em frequently
•Share the report with other users
•Customize reports using the Interactive Viewer
The Monitoring and Reports drawer appears in the primary web interface window and contains the
Launch Monitoring and Report Viewer option.
Click Launch Monitoring and Report Viewer to open the Monitoring and Reports Viewer in a
secondary web interface window, which contains the following drawers:
•Monitoring and Reports
•Monitoring Configuration. (See Managing System Operations and Configuration in the Monitoring
and Report Viewer, page15-1.)
You can run reports from any of the following pages:
•Favorites—Monitoring and Reports > Reports > Favorites
•Shared—Monitoring and Reports > Reports > Shared