HP Storage Essentials V5.1 User Guide First Edition (T4283-96026, August 2006)

Storage Essentials 5.1 User Guide 211
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6. Click the Enable option.
7. Click the Save Changes button.
Setting Up Global Reporter
IMPORTANT: Depending on your license, Global Reporter may not be available. See the “List of
Features” to determine if you have access to Global Reporter. The “List of Features” is accessible
from the Documentation Center (Help > Documentation Center in Storage Essentials).
Global Reporter lets you gather data for global reports from multiple management servers. For
example, lets assume you have three management servers: one in London, one in Tokyo, and one
in New York City. You are located in New York City and you want to obtain data in your global
reports from the management servers in London and Tokyo, as well as from your own management
server in New York City. Through the use of Global Reporter, you can gather data from all three
sites.
When you set up Global Reporter, the management server pulls the data from the local database
views at these sites through the database link. The flow of the data is shown by the arrows in the
following figure. A global reporting view on the server running Global Reporter contains