Report Analyst; Analysis Tab - Novell SENTINEL 6.1 SP2 - 02-2010 User Manual

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Also, if you go to the Process View window it indicates as Complete or if you double-click this
process, it indicates as Complete.

14.4 Report Analyst

NOTE: Assumption, your Security Administrator has configured your Crystal Enterprise Web
Server and published a list of available reports.

14.4.1 Analysis Tab

The Analysis tab allows for historical reporting. Historical and vulnerability reports are published on
a Crystal Web Server, these run directly against the Sentinel database. These reports can be useful to
track and investigate activity over a large time frame, for instance a week or a month. These reports
can also be used as a high level reporting method to your supervisors. If your reporting Web Server
is installed, look in the navigator bar to see what reports are available.
NOTE: Your reports might be different, Sentinel Crystal Reports are "living" reports. They are
under constant updating.
For example, if you are responsible for generating reports to upper management within your
organization, you can run Source Destination Reports. These are Top 10 Source to Destination IP
Pairs on hosts names, ports, IPs and users. To run this report, do the following:
To run a Crystal Report:
1 Expand Top 10 and highlight Top 10 Source to Destination IP Pairs and click Create Reports
(magnifying glass).
2 Specify Sentinel Report User (for SQL authentication and Oracle) as the username or your
Windows Authentication username and specify your password.
3 Under Report Type, select one of the following:
Specific Date Range
Prior Day
Daily Report
Weekly Report
Monthly Report
NOTE: Other reports might have additional parameters such as resource name and severity
range.
4 Click OK. The following is a sample monthly report.
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