7.9.3 Report Development

The Crystal Reports Developer can be used to create or modify Crystal reports. For custom developed reports, the following is recommended:

 If the reports can utilize predefined aggregate tables, select the aggregate table that results in processing of the least amount of data.

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Try to move most of the data processing to the database engine.

To reduce processing overhead on the Crystal server, minimize the amount of data to retrieve to the Crystal server.

 Always write reports against the database views provided by Novell, instead of writing reports against the base tables.

7.10 Using Crystal Reports

For more information on using Crystal Reports Server for Sentinel Reporting, see “ Crystal Report

Configuration ” in the Sentinel 6.1 User Guide .

7.11 Uninstalling Crystal Reports

1 On the Windows desktop, go to Start > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs.

2 Select Crystal Reports, then click Remove.

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Crystal Reports for Linux

Business Objects Crystal Reports Server is the reporting tool used with Sentinel. This section discusses the installation and configuration of Crystal Reports Server for Sentinel on Linux platform. For more information on supported platforms for Crystal Reports Server in a Sentinel environment, see

Chapter 2, “System Requirements,” on page 15 .

On Linux, Sentinel has been tested with Crystal Reports Server XI R2 SP4. For more information on on downloading the latest service packs, see

Section 8.3, “Downloading the Service Packs for

Crystal Reports,” on page 127

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Section 8.1, “Overview,” on page 122

Section 8.2, “Installation,” on page 122

Section 8.3, “Downloading the Service Packs for Crystal Reports,” on page 127

Section 8.4, “Publishing Crystal Reports Templates,” on page 127

Section 8.5, “Using the Crystal XI R2 Web Server,” on page 132

Section 8.6, “Increasing Crystal Reports Server Report Refresh Record Limit,” on page 133

Section 8.7, “Configuring Sentinel Control Center to Integrate with Crystal Reports Server,” on page 134

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Section 8.8, “Utilities and Troubleshooting,” on page 135

Section 8.9, “High-Performance Configurations for Crystal,” on page 136

Section 8.10, “Using Crystal Reports,” on page 138

This section discusses running Crystal Reports Server on Linux. For more information on running

Crystal Reports Server on Windows, see

Chapter 7, “Crystal Reports for Windows,” on page 93 .

IMPORTANT: The installation should be done in the order presented below.

Installing the Crystal Reports Server involves the following:

1 Installing the Crystal Reports Server XI R2

2 Patching the Crystal Reports Server

3 Publishing (importing) Crystal reports

4 Setting a “Named User” account

5 Testing connectivity to the Web Server

6 Enabling Top 10 reports (optional)

7 Increasing Crystal Reports Server Report Refresh Record Limit (recommended)

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