About Veritas CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter

Veritas CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter by Symantec (Enterprise Reporter) improves storage service management by aligning IT to business objectives. Enterprise Reporter offers business information executives and storage administrators the following:

Enterprise Reporter includes a central reporting interface for your storage infrastructure that unifies information from multiple data centers and organizes it along the lines of your business. If you are a business information executive, you can use Enterprise Reporter to view your storage environment at the enterprise level. You can then drill down into your organization's hierarchy, which could be organized by location, departments, or any other logical business unit. This summarized information enables you to assess trends in your storage environment, which you can then analyze to assign responsibility.

If you are a storage administrator, you can use Enterprise Reporter to identify capacity trends, review storage inventory, and determine your storage costs per business unit. With this information, you can promote storage accountability and decrease costs.

Figure: Report types and scopes

Report types and scopes

Use Enterprise Reporter to answer questions like the following:

Storage administrators and business users operate Enterprise Reporter with CommandCentral Storage. While CommandCentral Storage provides storage reporting for a single data center and is used at an operational level, Enterprise Reporter lets you aggregate storage information from multiple data centers and view storage assets by a variety of business dimensions. For example, if you are a business information executive, you could use Enterprise Reporter to identify the trend of unclaimed tier 1 storage in your New York and Zurich data centers. You could then ask the storage administrators at each site to use CommandCentral Storage to drill down to the details of which arrays or LUNs are unclaimed.