Novell Sentinel provides many useful reports right out of the box, but what do you do when you are looking for a custom report? This session will explore how to leverage and integrate the third-party reporting tools Crystal Reports and Jasper. We will introduce you to the Sentinel and Jasper reporting environments from setup to basic usage. You will also learn how to create and generate highly customizable reports that present the Sentinel normalized event data in a format that fits your environment.Session BenefitsDuring the session, you will:Learn how to set up a Crystal Reports and Jasper reporting environmentCreate basic reports for Sentinel with reporting toolsBecome familiar with the Sentinel and reports environmentsBriefly overview the syntax to parse and manipulate normalized Sentinel dataDemonstrate the use of iReport, the graphical report designer for Jasper, to customize existing templates
2. Novacoast, Inc.Novacoast is an IT professional services and
product development company. We offer organizations our
technological experience so they can make informed decisions and
avoid costly IT mistakes.We combine our customers' expertise with
our technical knowledge to rapidly deploy fixed cost solutions
customized for their environment.Novacoast is a Novell Platinum
Solutions provider. With headquarters in California, we deliver
services nationally.2 Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 3. Outline
Reporting in general Crystal Reports Crystal Reports Server Crystal
Reports Developer Jasper Reports JasperServer iReport Eclipse
Plugin Crystal vs Jasper3 Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 4.
Reporting 5. Reporting What should be shown by the report? Who will
be the audience? Content Layout Access Control Distribution
Determine necessary data 5 Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 6.
Data How to obtain the necessary data? Does the Event Source
generate the necessary events? Are the events parsed (correctly) by
Novell Sentinel ? How is the data represented in a normalized
Novell Sentinel Event? Can necessary data be provided by augmenting
source events via the mapping service?6 Novell, Inc. All rights
reserved. 7. Novell Sentinel Event Schema Initiator: The thing that
caused the event to occur Action: The type of activity that is
being described by the event Target: The thing that is affected by
the event Observer: The thing that observed that the event took
place. 7 Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 8. XDAS Taxonomy Open
Group standard for Distributed Audit Service (XDAS) Taxonomy is a
classification that is intended to group events of similar type
together to ease reporting and searching Event taxonomy :
Classifies the type of activity that the event describes Outcome
taxonomy : Classifies the type of outcome or result that was caused
by the event Observer taxonomy : Classifies the type of system that
generated the event8 Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 9. Event
Taxonomy Account Management Events Trust Management Events Data
Item and Resource Element Management Events Data Item or Resource
Element Content Access Events Peer Association Management Events
User Session Events Service and Application Utilization Events
Service or Application Management Events Exceptional Events Audit
Service Management Events Workflow Events Attack Events9 Novell,
Inc. All rights reserved. 10. Best Practices You need to understand
semantics of eventsgenerated by source devices You need to
understand how source events arerepresented in Novell Sentinel
(Schema and Taxonomy) Spell out what the report is supposed to show
Start with a mockup of the report 10 Novell, Inc. All rights
reserved. 11. Crystal Reports Live Demonstration 12. Crystal
Reports Outline Table View Schema Installation Demonstration Create
ODBC Datasource Querying the Database Displaying data Syntax>
Parsing results Demonstration: Preview / run report 12 Novell, Inc.
All rights reserved. 13. Crystal ReportsDeveloper Installation
Straightforward Insert DVD / Mount iso Follow instructions to
install. 13 Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 14. Crystal Reports
Syntax//Assignments //LoopsLocal StringVar areaCode; Local
NumberVar i;areaCode := {Customer.Fax} [1 To 3];Local NumberVar
total := 0;For i := 1 To 5 Do//if else (If {Orders.Order Amount}
>= 1000 Thentotal := total + 1"Insured
shipping");Elsestr"Regular shipping"End If//Formularesult = 7 + 2 *
3 - 2 14 Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 15. Crystal Reports Live
Demonstration 16. Jasper Reports Outline Intro Installation
Demonstration Create ODBC Datasource Querying the Database
Displaying data Syntax> Parsing results Preview running report
16 Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 17. Data Sources inNovell
Sentinel Log Manager There are potentially two data sources for
reports Event Data stored on the file system indexed by Lucene >
Lucene query syntax> extensions to Lucene Queries: GroupBy for
Top-10 reports> Lucene query executer for iReport Configuration
Data stored in PostgreSQL > Standard SQL can be used to design
the report Currently a report can query only one data source at a
time17 Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 18. Jasper Reports
Installation Downloads as an archive tar.gz iReport included in
installation. 18 Novell, Inc. All rights reserved. 19. Resources
Get Novell Sentinel SDK to develop reports
http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Sentinel-sdk SDK uses
ant as build tool. Eclipse includes ant. http://ant.apache.org,
http://www.eclipse.org iReport GUI report designer
http://jasperforge.org/projects/ireport Watch recorded Transfer
Training http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Reports Product
Support Foum
http://forums.novell.com/novell-product-support-forums/sentinel/ 19
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Demonstration 21. Unpublished Work of Novell, Inc. All Rights
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