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Setting up global reporter – HP Storage Essentials NAS Manager Software User Manual

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Click the Enable option.

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Click the Save Changes button.

Setting Up Global Reporter

IMPORTANT:

Depending on your license, Global Reporter may not be available. See the “List of

Features” to determine if you have access to Global Reporter. The “List of Features” is accessible

from the Documentation Center (Help > Documentation Center in Storage Essentials).

Global Reporter lets you gather data for global reports from multiple management servers. For

example, lets assume you have three management servers: one in London, one in Tokyo, and one in

New York City. You are located in New York City and you want to obtain data in your global

reports from the management servers in London and Tokyo, as well as from your own management

server in New York City. Through the use of Global Reporter, you can gather data from all three

sites.
When you set up Global Reporter, the management server pulls the data from the local database

views at these sites through the database link. The flow of the data is shown by the arrows in the

following figure. A global reporting view on the server running Global Reporter contains