Change Reports are based on Document Reports. Any report created under the Document Report, can also be used to show changes. Ecora understands that it is important to know what has changed in your IT environment; for the sake of tracking down the cause of a new problem and for the sake of efficiency if you're auditing regularly and know your environment well. Change Management allows you to choose two new or existing data or report sets (by date) to be compared. The resulting browser view shows the first selection on top and the second on the bottom.
- Warning: None of the reports can provide a thorough analysis if you do not document ALL systems in your infrastructure. A security-oriented report, for example, will necessarily have "blind spots" where systems that are not documented may have vulnerabilities.
To create a Change Report:
1. Run the Ecora software.
2. Choose Reports>Change Report or click the Change button.
3. In the Report Criteria pane select what how to sort the datasets on which your Change Report will be based on.
- Change and Trend reports are specified based on selecting the appropriate machine for the comparison.
- By Collection reports are based on selecting individual datasets.
- Note: You may specify Data Sets by time range, in the Report Criteria tab.
- The range can be set to go back for a specific amout of time from the present date. The report will then display data accumulated from collections stated in the criteria.
- The range can be set by specifying a beginning date and an end date. The report will then display data accumulated from collections stated in the criteria.
4.1. For the Change and Trend reports select the system or systems you wish to base the analysis on in the By System window tab.
4.2. For the By Collection reports select the datasets you wish to base the analysis on in the By Dataset window tab.
5. After selecting the basis for your report choose if you wish to generate a Full Report or a custom one based on particular attributes.
- Click the Select button in order to select one of the pre-defined Configuration reports.
Click on OK once you have made your decision.
- Click the Customize button in order to browse through the available attributes and compile your own custom report. Expand the categories in the window's left pane in order to browse to your desired attribute. The available attributes for each category will be displayed in the Available Settings pane. Double-click the attribute or select it and click on the arrow pointing to the Selected pane. The Selected pane will display the attributes and categories that will be included in your report.
- Once you have made your Report selection, click Finish.
6. Click OK in order to proceed and generate the report.
- Note: You may specify a custom path where the report is going to be saved in by clicking on the Browse button and navigation to your desired folder.
7. Select the report in the file format you desire and open it.
8. Consult the report.
