To generate a report, users must log on to the Web Control Center Web page.
From the Home page, (the page you see when you log on), you can select
from any number of reports to find out about the computer systems at your
company and who is using them.
Reporting level control
The reporting level control is displayed in the options panel on the left of each page.
This shows the part of the company that you are allowed to search on.
Centennial Discovery® Web Edition organizes the data about your company into a hierarchy called
Organizational Units or OUs. Each OU can have one or more OUs within it.
The structure of the hierarchy is set up by the System Administrator when
Centennial Discovery® Web Edition is set up. When you are given a user account for the
Web Control Center, you are given access to a particular OU (and all the OUs
within it).
This top-level OU is displayed in the reporting level control. You can also
limit a report to any lower level OU by using the drop-down
list in the reporting level control. Do this before selecting any other criteria
for a report.
Report categories
The navigation at the top of each page displays a number of tabs, each
corresponding to a report category that you can choose from. In most
categories there is more than one report in each category. Select the report that
shows the information you are interested in.
The report categories are:
Dashboard
Provides an overview display of four graphs of the data held in the repository.
Asset Mgmt
Examines the hardware and operating systems of your network assets. Analyses the impact of hardware or software upgrades.
Hardware
Provides two overview graphs and access to search forms and reports for hardware devices and components.
Software
Provides two overview graphs and access to software and license compliance reports.
Security
Provides two overview graphs and access to greynet software and vulnerability reports. This option is only available if you have purchased a license that includes the security management feature.
Example Queries
Six report examples show you the types of reports that can be generated. To see how a report was created,
refer to the following topics:
How to Generate a Report
Many reports, such as the Manufacturers List, are produced directly
without requiring any additional input from you.
Other reports display a form so that you can narrow the results. An example
search form is shown below. The fields in the form depend on the specific
report, but in each case you make selections and then click on the Search
button. (Click on the Reset button to display the default values.)
For example, if you are interested in what types of DVD ROM are
installed, select Physical Disk from the Product Type drop-down list and then
DVD ROM from the Sub Type drop-down list.
Report Layout
Reports are displayed in a table similar to the example shown below. The columns
shown and the size of the report depend on the type of report and criteria you selected.
Note: In the event your report is empty, change the criteria and try again.
The number of matches is shown at the bottom of each report, for
example "Products 1 to 20 from 22". If there are a large number
of matches, they are split across several pages. You can select how many
records should be displayed in a page and then move between the pages by
clicking on a page number.
Working with Reports
After a report is displayed, you can:
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Get more detailed information on one entry
Click on the item that you are interested in. Depending
on the information in that column, different detail is displayed.
For example, click on a Product name to display detailed information
about that application or click on a number in the total column to
show a list of the items that make up the total.
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Search for matching entries
Some reports contain a Find field that can be used to search for a
specific entry or entries and filter the information displayed in
the report.
For example, if you type in "Micro" and click on the
Go button, only suppliers with names that begin with Micro
are listed.
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Re-order the information
To sort the report information according to the values in a column,
click the up (ascending order) or down (descending order) arrow in
the column heading.
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Export the report to MS Excel
Click on the MS Excel logo that appears in the options panel to export the
entire report (not just the page being displayed) to MS Excel.
Note: This feature is not available on all reports.