Accessing Reporting Pages When The Use Of Loopback Addresses Is Disabled - Symantec 20032623 - Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition Implementation Manual

328 Troubleshooting reporting issues

Accessing reporting pages when the use of loopback addresses is disabled

Accessing reporting pages when the use of loopback
addresses is disabled
Some reports on servers that display in an Asian language do not display chart
text properly unless MS Arial Unicode is installed on the server. This problem
occurs if your report includes a histogram or a 3D-bar graph. If you do not have
the MS Arial Unicode font installed on the server, you can configure your server
to get around this requirement. You can configure Symantec Endpoint Protection
Small Business Edition to use any Unicode-enabled font that you have that supports
the languages in your environment.
To change the font used to display reports
1 Change directory to drive:\Program Files\ Symantec\Symantec Endpoint
Protection Manager\Inetpub\Reporting\Common.
2 Open the I18nCommon.bundle configuration file with an editor.
3 Type the name of the font file that you want to use after the equal sign (=)
following the SPECIAL_FONT variable. For example, if you wanted to use
Arial, you would type the following:
SPECIAL_FONT=arial.ttf
4 Save the file in UTF-8 format, and then close the file.
5
Make sure that the font file you type is located in the %WINDIR%\fonts
directory.
If you have disabled the use of loopback addresses on the computer, the reporting
pages do not display. If you try to log on to the Symantec Endpoint Protection
Manager console or to access the reporting functions, you see the following error
message:
Unable to communicate with Reporting component
The Home, Monitors, and Reports pages are blank; the Policies, Clients, and
Admin pages look and function normally.
To get the Reports components to display when you have disabled loopback
addresses, you must associate the word localhost with your computer's IP address.
You can edit the Windows hosts file to associate localhost with an IP address.
To associate localhost with the IP address on computers running Windows
1 Change directory to the location of your hosts file.
By default, the hosts file is located in %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc
2 Open the hosts file with an editor.