Chapter 7: Using the SafeWord 2008 Management Console
Reporting
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Reporting
SafeWord enables you to generate reports that summarize and detail all
administrative and authentication activity, and the SafeWord 2008
Management Console allows you to export raw data that can easily be
imported into a third-party reporting package. This gives you the ability to
convert raw logging data into highly-customized reports describing your
organization’s activity.
Along with audit logs, you can export any subset of SafeWord data elements
that you have introduced or created, including users, admin groups, roles, and
authenticators. For example, you can easily generate reports that identify
users who do not yet have an assigned authenticator, and identify the
authenticators that remain unassigned to users. Once you have exported your
raw data, the reporting possibilities are endless.
SafeWord exports specified raw data into Microsoft Excel worksheet files.
Using Excel macros, you may find that a third-party reporting package is not
even necessary to generate useful reports. However, if you have a favorite
reporting package, it will certainly accept data from either the native Excel
worksheet format (XLS), or from the CSV (comma separated value) format
(which Excel is capable of generating).
Creating reports
To create reports, connect to an Admin Server and select
Tools > Reports
.
Figure 110:
The Report
Definition window
In the Report Definition window you define the categories of raw data that you
would like to export (typically audit log data, user data, and perhaps software/
hardware authenticator data). For example, to generate reports concerning the
authentication activity, you would export authentication audit logs; to generate
reports on users who are attack-locked or are otherwise disabled, you would
export user data; and to generate reports on unassigned tokens, you would
export software/hardware authenticator data.
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