views are refreshed, as described in ”Refreshing the Report Cache” on page 208. The overall report architecture is displayed in Figure 29, “Report Views and Report Cache Refresh,” on page 200.

Figure 29 Report Views and Report Cache Refresh

Suggestion for Scheduling the Report Cache Refresh:

The report cache (report views) is snapshot data of a management server schema up to a point in time. The report cache refresh is time- and resource-consuming. The following are guidelines for scheduling report cache refresh:

•To ensure that the report cache has the latest data from Discovery Data Collection, schedule the report cache refresh after Discovery Data Collection finishes.

•Make sure to schedule the report cache refresh during off-peak hours.

For information on how to refresh the report cache, see ”Refreshing the Report Cache” on page 208.

Keep in mind the following:

•After an initial installation, make sure you have already run Discovery Data Collection. Then, refresh the report cache to populate it with the data from Discovery Data Collection. If you do not refresh the report cache, the cache is still in its initial state, which is empty. If the cache is empty, so too will the reports be, since they obtain their information from the report cache.

•During the report cache refresh, the report views are truncated and repopulated with the latest data. If a report is run during report cache refresh and the corresponding view is refreshed, the report is displayed with no data.

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