DRILL-DOWN REPORTING Northern Storage Reporter offers a great depth of storage information. This information is navigated by clicking on items to increase the level of detail and specificity; drilling-down to the exact information you require. The best way to demonstrate the flexibility of the drill-down approach is by offering some examples as to how it can be used: After identifying that a host is nearing full, move deeper into that host, locate obsolete or unwanted files and delete them. View space consumption by user on the host and identify usage patterns that should be changed. View a user's storage consumption on the entire network, drill-down to a specific host, or even volume. After creating a custom "unwanted file types" group, identify and remove these files from your entire network. Check for users who are saving these types of files and take action. Use your configured host groups to move from an enterprise overview to geographical, departmental or function specific views.

INSTANT GRAPHICAL VIEWS
The key way in which Northern Storage Reporter provides access to storage data is through its system of intuitive graphical views. These views are constructed by a series of highly flexible ActiveX controls, displayed in HTML pages.

• Usage statistics can be represented as data-rich lists or as graphs, providing a more at-a-glance view.
• Graph options include, column, pie and line charts.
• Refine the data representation, exclude extreme values or irrelevant data for example.
• Data can be rounded or re-sorted to quickly expose the information you require.
• Right-click to view file count, or average file size on any host group, host, volume, etc.
• Maximize any control to get a closer look at graphical or listed data.
• Make use of the hints offered in each control to explore all of their functions.

PRE-CONFIGURED REPORTS
In addition to offering an impressive depth of storage data through its drill-down displays, Northern Storage Reporter also offers a series of valuable pre-configured reports.

• Generic Report Pages
  
- Network usage and content page
- Host Group usage and content pages
- Host usage and status pages
- Volume usage and status pages
- Individual user usage page
- File Type usage on network, server or volume


• File Reports
  
- Files larger than a certain size
- Files not accessed in the last X (number of) days
- Files modified before or after a certain date
- Files created before a specific date
- File not accessed since a specific date
- File type growth
- File types above a certain usage threshold
- Files by file-extension type
- Files by type (scans file-header information)
- Files not backed up
- Files with hidden streams


• User Reports
  
- Files owned by a specific user
- Files by user
- Files owned by obsolete user accounts
- X (number of) top space-consuming users
- X (number of) top growing users


• Projections
  
- Host near-full projection
- Path near-full projection


• Schedule reports to run at intervals or immediately.
  
• Have storage reports run across multiple servers or across the entire network.
  
• Printing options ensure you will only be printing your reports and not a complete copy of the Storage Reporter interface.
  
• Export storage data to other databases, or applications, Microsoft Excel for example.
  
  

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