Symantec Veritas CommandCentral 5.1 Getting Started Manual page 20

20 Getting started with the CommandCentral family
About Veritas CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter
How CommandCentral Storage Change Manager works
About Veritas CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter
View reports that provide an enterprise–wide view of the changes made to
your storage resources, a summary of the hosts and applications that have
policies applied to them, and details about violations, including the time that
it takes to resolve violations and the type of violations that have generated.
Display an overall view of the current state of your data center. With the
Dashboard, you can view graphs that detail the number of recent violations
and changes. This allows you to identify current impacts and helps you to
visualize storage change trends in your data center.
The CommandCentral Storage Change Manager Management Server and managed
hosts discover storage resources in your data center. When changes occur to those
resources, CommandCentral Storage Change Manager detects and aggregates the
changes. During the detection process, CommandCentral Storage Change Manager
assesses the changes against custom policies and best practice policies. If a change
violates a custom policy, CommandCentral Storage Change Manager generates a
violation. If a change violates a best practice policy, CommandCentral Storage
Change Manager generates a risk.
CommandCentral Storage Change Manager allows you to interact with the storage
objects it discovers, the changes it detects, and the violations it generates through
its Console. You can also use the Console to manage custom policies and best
practice policies, configure devices, view reports, and manage user accounts.
Veritas CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter by Symantec (Enterprise Reporter)
improves storage service management by aligning IT to business objectives.
Enterprise Reporter provides the following to business information executives
and storage administrators alike:
Global views of storage assets mapped to your organization
Business insights into inventory utilization
On-demand customized reporting
Personalized dashboards for multiple users
Enterprise Reporter provides a central reporting interface for your storage
infrastructure by unifying information from multiple data centers and categorizing
it along lines of the business. If you are a business information executive, you can
use Enterprise Reporter to view your storage environment at the enterprise level.
You can then drill down into your organization's hierarchy, which could be