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C H A P T E R 13

Managing Reports

The Monitoring & 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 & Report Viewer provides you integrated monitoring, reporting, and troubleshooting capabilities to efficiently manage your network and troubleshoot network-related problems.

The Monitoring & 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 information on network access patterns and trends in traffic that you can use to administer your network efficiently.

The Monitoring & 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 13-2lists 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 them 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 & Report Viewer option.

Click Launch Monitoring & 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 & Report Viewer, page 15-1.)

You can run reports from any of the following pages:

•Favorites—Monitoring & Reports > Reports > Favorites

•Shared—Monitoring & Reports > Reports > Shared

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