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Reporting
ePolicy Orchestrator ships with its own querying and reporting capabilities. These are highly
customizable, flexible and easy to use. The Query Builder and Report Builder creates and runs queries and
reports that result in user-configured data in user-configured charts and tables. The data for these
queries and reports can be obtained from any registered internal or external database in your ePolicy
Orchestrator system.
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Reporting overview
Custom queries
Reporting overview
The ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 server includes a powerful and simple to use query system. You can use
the preconfigured queries, create custom queries, and use the output of the queries to perform tasks.
For example to create reports, or delete inactive nodes.
Creating reports with previous versions of ePolicy Orchestrator required extensive knowledge of SQL
statements and Crystal Reports. The new ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 query system allows you to create
custom reports configuring these four basic items:
• Result Type — Identifies what type of data the query retrieves, and determines the available
selections in the rest of the wizard.
• Chart Type — Specifies the type of chart or table to display the data it retrieves.
• Columns — Selects the data to display. If you select Table, this configures the table. If you select a
type of chart, this configures the drill-down table.
• Filter — Specifies displayed criteria by selecting properties and operators to limit the data
retrieved by the query.
To view one of the preconfigured queries, click Run and the query output appears. You can then:
• Save the output as a report
• Duplicate the query and change the output
• Click any results you see in the query system for additional information
• Take action on certain results as you normally would in the System Tree
As you add new products using extensions to The McAfee ePO server
new preconfigured queries and reports become available.
See McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 Product Guide and McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.5 Reporting
Guide for details.
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