Novell File Reporter

Data Sheet File and Networking Services Novell File Reporter The enormous growth of network storage content is introducing enormous management challenges. Today’s enterprises not only need to know what files they are storing, but if they are protecting themselves from unauthorized access. They need to know if their storage infrastructure is optimized and if not, what measures they can take to improve it. Novell® File Reporter provides enterprise level file inventorying and reporting so you can optimize your network storage for efficiency and compliance. Product Overview rights to folders and consequently, the files DIRECTORY SERVICES ENABLED Novell File Reporter inventories network file that are contained within. SECURITY REPORTING systems and delivers the detailed file storage Novell File Reporter integrates with the net intelligence you need to optimize and secure Key Benefits work’s directory service (NetIQ eDirectory or your network for efficiency and compliance. Novell File Reporter introduces an extensive Active Directory) to ascertain and report on Engineered for enterprise file system report set of features and benefits unavailable in rights and permissions tied to the file system. ing, Novell File Reporter gathers data across other network reporting solutions. Novell File Reporter can even report across the millions of files and folders scattered storage residing in eDirectory and Active among the network storage devices that ENTERPRISE REPORTING Directory at the same time. make up your network. Flexible reporting, Unlike other reporting solutions that limit filtering, and querying options then present reporting to individual storage devices, Security reports can indicate: the exact findings you need so you can dem Novell File Reporter lets you report on files onstrate compliance or take corrective action. scattered across multiple network storage Who has direct access to a volume or devices. This reporting can include all serv share, including all subfolders Novell File Reporter identifies files currently ers in a department or even all servers and Who has direct and inherited rights on the network, the size of the files, when network attached storage (NAS) devices in through a single path users last accessed or modified the files, the the entire enterprise. Rather than generating A comprehensive list of a user’s or group’s locations of duplicate files and much more. individual reports on each server and then access rights viewing each report to make your decisions, Which NCP or NTFS permissions have Additionally, Novell File Reporter helps cal you can gather the information you need in changed between two points in time culate storage costs and identifies access one single report. www.novell.com EXPANSIVE DATA CONTENT and who to notify in case there is a problem. When Novell File Reporter scans a network This allows Novell File Reporter to automate storage object, it gathers extensive informa the scanning process so you don’t have to tion that you can use as content in a vari stay late and initiate the scan yourself. By engaging Novell Services for Premium ety of Novell File Reporter report types. This Support, Consulting or Training, we can information includes file system content de REPORT FILTERING help you get the most of your product investment to suit your business needs. tails, file metadata, folder meta data, secu Novell File Reporter reports have the poten Please contact us today, or contact your rity and trustee information for folders, disk tial to be gigabytes in size, and possibly hun local Novell Solutions Provider: quota information for folders and eDirectory dreds of thousands of pages long. Reviewing network volume or Active Directory network all of this data in a report is impractical and Premium Support and Consulting: share information. inefficient. Novell File Reporter therefore lets 1 800 714 3400 U.S./Canada you create reports through filters that present 1 801 861 4272 Worldwide [email protected] FLEXIBLE REPORTING AND a reduced number of entries according to the PRESENTATION TYPES criteria you want to see. Training: Novell File Reporter offers a broad range of 1 800 233 3382 U.S./Canada builtin report types specific to your filtering NOTIFICATION 1 801 861 3381 Worldwide and presentation preferences. Additionally, Novell File Reporter notifies network admin [email protected] Custom Query reports can be generated us istrators of all completed scans and reports Novell, Inc. ing SQL commands. Reports can be saved or scans and reports in progress. It also can in a variety of standard file types. Graphing 1800 South Novell Place advise administrators via email when scans Provo, UT 84606 USA capabilities let you present data in an assort have completed or failed. Novell File Repor ter ment of graphical formats. can send email notification via Novell Group Wise®, Microsoft Exchange and even open Key Features source email products such as Sendmail. SCAN POLICIES Through an agent, Novell File Reporter takes WEB-BASED ADMINISTRATION a scan of a storage resource’s file system at You can conduct all Novell File Reporter ad a given moment. Scans are indexed data that ministrative tasks through a webbased are specific to a storage resource and the ses sion using a number of supported web means of generating a storage report. Novell brow sers. In addition to configuring the sys File Reporter conducts scans according to tem, defining scan policies, configuring and the specifications of scan policies that you generating reports, you can view the com establish. 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