Report Development. Novell Sentinel 6.1 SP2

NOTE: For information about EventFileRedirectService and the three aggregation summaries, see

“Report Data Configuration” in Admin in the Sentinel 6.1 User Guide .

NOTE: Reports that query a large date range might take sometime to run. They can be scheduled instead of running interactively. For information about scheduling Crystal Reports, go to Crystal

Reports Server XI R2 documentation (http://www.sap.com/search/ index.epx?q1=SCHEDULING+CRYSTAL+REPORT&num=10) and click the CRYSTAL

REPORTS SERVER.pdf.

The above mentioned URL was current at the time of publication of the document.

8.9.2 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 pre-defined aggregate tables, select the aggregate table that result in the processing of the least amount of data.

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

To reduce processing overhead in 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.

8.10 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 .

138 Sentinel 6.1 Installation Guide