Hello. In this video you will learn about all options and settings in ACDI Reporting – what they mean and what they can influence.
Let's go to "Manage", then 'Report Editor" and select a report, for example, the NetIQ Role Request report.
This is a complex report that has many entities, linkages, and all kinds of filters as well as enabled postprocessing. Let's start from "Report properties".
So, in this tab you can define "The Report ID", "Display Name", and "Description".
The entries from the applied settings will be displayed on a report's card. Here you can see it.
You can also add a base 64 encoded .png icon and it will be shown in the card. Additionally, you can define the background color, "The report version" - the default version of the reporting system is 4 (the latest one).
Tags can also be added. With tags you will be able to filter reports and put them into custom reports submenus.
One of the most important settings is "The Main index name".
The data in ACDI is stored in different kinds of indices grouped by special aliases. Aliases starting with "workflow" contain events received from the eDirectory Workflow Monitoring package, then indices starting with "report" contain data received from the snapshot services.
"Default" stands for the first default - eDirectory – connector. You can have an Active Directory connection or some secondary data connectors. You'll have here the suffix which is the name of your LDAP connection.
You can check the suffix of your current connection in "Administration" – “Core Engine".
Here you'll see the list of connections. Each connection has its own indices settings.
The indices settings are to be found in "Audit Server - "Indices settings".
Here are two connections and in their settings, you can check main alias for the snapshot services and for the event-related service.
Reports with the prefix "audit" contain the audit data received either from the eDirectory ACDI driver or from the Event Service for Active Directory. Indices with this alias contain information about events, changes of objects in eDirectory or Active Directory.
Okay, the entity here, which will be used as the main one, can be defined only when you create at least one entity in the "Entities" tab. This main entity serves as the root of all reports.
"Default sort attribute" and "The Sort order - ascending or descending. Here you define the number of objects which will be displayed on the page. It's required for the pagination. And here you can enable or disable the "Show Flat result" option. You can learn more about this option in our previous videos.
For the setup of "The default time shift" are used the following values: days, weeks, months, and years. "Days" is set as a default time shift which will be applied to a date picker in the filtering stage. Here are "Round date-time value", "The default round date-time metric" and "The Slice load". If you have a report that includes many secondary entities and you need to display a large number of attributes with long strings, as well as you have many post-processing functions to transform results, then you will benefit from using "The Slice load" option which increases performance and prevents the reporting system from crashing. With this option enabled, records will be loaded to the resulting table by bulks the size of which you define in the setting right next to this one. Moreover, you can also limit the size of data to be shown on the front-end, since some browsers don't process big sizes of data on front-end. Let's go to the second tab "Entities".
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