Introduction to Crystal and Jasper Reports for Novell Sentinel 6.1
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Introduction to Crystal and Jasper Reports for Novell® Sentinel ™ 6.1 Norbert Klasen - Senior Consultant [email protected] Dean Liu - Developer III [email protected] Jonathan Poon - Developer III [email protected]
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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
Transcript of Introduction to Crystal and Jasper Reports for Novell Sentinel 6.1
Introduction to Crystal and Jasper Reports for Novell® Sentinel™ 6.1
Norbert Klasen - Senior Consultant [email protected]
Dean Liu - Developer [email protected]
Jonathan Poon - Developer III [email protected]
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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.
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Outline
• Reporting in general• Crystal Reports
– Crystal Reports Server
– Crystal Reports Developer
• Jasper Reports– JasperServer
– iReport
– Eclipse Plugin
• Crystal vs Jasper
Reporting
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Reporting
• What should be shown by the report?• Who will be the audience?
• Content• Layout• Access Control• Distribution
• Determine necessary data
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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?
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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.
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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 event
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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 Events
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Best Practices
• You need to understand semantics of events generated by source devices
• You need to understand how source events are represented in Novell® Sentinel™ (Schema and Taxonomy)
• Spell out what the report is supposed to show
• Start with a mockup of the report
Crystal ReportsLive Demonstration
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Crystal Reports Outline
• Table View Schema• Installation• Demonstration
– Create ODBC Datasource
– Querying the Database
– Displaying data
– Syntax> Parsing results
– Demonstration: Preview / run report
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Crystal Reports Developer Installation• Straightforward
– Insert DVD / Mount iso
– Follow instructions to install.
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Crystal Reports Syntax
//Assignments
Local StringVar areaCode;
areaCode := {Customer.Fax} [1 To 3];
//if else
If {Orders.Order Amount} >= 1000 Then
"Insured shipping"
Else
"Regular shipping"
End If
//Formula
result = 7 + 2 * 3 - 2
//Loops
Local NumberVar i;
Local NumberVar total := 0;
For i := 1 To 5 Do
(
total := total + 1
);
str
Crystal ReportsLive Demonstration
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Jasper Reports Outline
• Intro• Installation• Demonstration
– Create ODBC Datasource– Querying the Database
– Displaying data
– Syntax> Parsing results
– Preview running report
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Data Sources in Novell® 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 time
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Jasper Reports Installation
• Downloads as an archive tar.gz
• iReport included in installation.
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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/
Jasper / iReport Demonstration
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