The Web-Based Report Center

A very significant feature of the Enterprise edition is its Report Center which offers a centralized view of all information regarding packages in your Application Catalog. Whereas the Application Manager provided more of a functional role, these web reports may be easily shared requiring no local installation.

To access the report center from within FLEXnet AdminStudio, you may use the "Enterprise Server" tab to access the login page. Initially, you won't have any account established so you connect with the default admin account (name/password: ASAdmin). Once logged in, click the "Administration" link to access information regarding users and roles. You can add users and roles from this interface. Some default roles are provided, but it is very easy to create your own and the ability to restrict the capabilities of certain users is extensive.

As for the reports available, there are a few dynamic reports that build based on your selections. The package content report lets you specify which items are to be included. In every case, these optional elements of the reports are derived from the same information as the Application Manager and any comment I had on the contents of each piece would be identical as well (so I will not repeat myself).

There is a Package Search report, which lets you choose what it is you wish to search (file, registry, etc.) and then you are presented with additional fields to complete the query. For example in a file search, you are provided a text field to enter the file name and a drop down box to select the target directory (neither field is mandatory). Naturally, the resulting report provides any matches based on your search criteria.

Finally, there is a "Consolidated Package Info" report which (again) is very similar to what you see within the Application Manager.  This report includes any conflicts, validation results and extended attributes.

In the image shown here, you see the validation results for a test package I created. Like most everything in this well designed web interface, it is configurable and I have chosen to limit the results shown to 10 items per page. All of the reports provide an "Export to Excel" button which generates a simple Excel spreadsheet with a bold top line header with all data presented below.

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