Software Requirements; Creating A Zenworks Endpoint Security Management Compliant Report - Novell ZENWORKS ENDPOINT SECURITY MANAGEMENT 3.5 - ADMINISTRATION Administration Manual

The following sections contain more information:
Section 5.6.1, "Software Requirements," on page 61
Section 5.6.2, "Creating a ZENworks Endpoint Security Management Compliant Report," on
page 61
Section 5.6.3, "Available Reporting Information," on page 62
Section 5.6.4, "Creating a Report," on page 65

5.6.1 Software Requirements

You can use ODBC-compliant reporting tools (for example, Crystal Reports*, Brio*, and Actuate*)
to create custom reports not included in the Novell reports list. These reporting tools can view and
query the reporting information from a common data warehouse, star format.
The reports included with ZENworks Endpoint Security Management were created using Crystal
Reports for Visual Studio .NET (SP2). This version of Crystal Reports is bundled with Visual
Studio .NET and is available as an optional component. To learn more, visit
msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/team/crystalreports/default.aspx (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/
team/crystalreports/default.aspx).
5.6.2 Creating a ZENworks Endpoint Security Management
Compliant Report
Before you begin, please review the report creation process outlined at:
vstudio/team/crystalreports/gettingstarted/default.aspx (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/team/
crystalreports/gettingstarted/default.aspx).
The first phase implementation of the ZENworks Endpoint Security Management reporting
framework has the following requirements of every report to be integrated into the system:
The report must be based on only one data source. That data source must be a single table or
view residing within the source database.
Browse the Reporting Data Source
Figure 5-13
Using the ZENworks Storage Encryption Solution Management Console
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