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Table Of Contents
Installing the SCA Reporter under Windows
How to install the SCA Reporter
Installing the SCA Reporter under Linux
How to Install the SCA Reporter under Linux
How to Uninstall the SCA Reporter under Linux
Setting the IP Address of the SCE Platform
How to Configure Advanced Options for the SCA Reporter
How to Work with a First Report
Getting Started
The Cisco Service Control Application Reporter (SCA Reporter) is the Cisco Service Control Application tool that allows you to produce reports based on the traffic analysis performed by the Service Control Engine (SCE) platform. The information is sent from the SCE platform and is stored in a database. The SCA Reporter can query and retrieve information from the database and present the results in a comprehensive range of reports, including global monitoring, subscriber monitoring, P2P, and traffic discovery statistics reports.
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Installing the SCA Reporter under Windows
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System Components
The SCA Reporter is a valuable tool for understanding the habits and resource consumption of the applications and subscribers that use your network. It can also be used to judge the efficacy of various rules and the possible impact of their implementation on the network.
The SCA Reporter is available only in a deployment with a database. You can generate reports using any of the following methods:
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The available reports can be displayed in a variety of chart renderings (for example, stacked-bar or area) or in tabular form. You can adjust the chart display for various presentation options (for example, 3D). You can export both tabular and chart reports to files. You can also modify the reports by changing the values assigned to the properties (for example, time boundaries). You can duplicate, export, and save reports.
You can also generate reports using the SCA Reporter Command-Line Interface (CLI) without using the GUI.
SCA Reporter consists of visual components (known as views ). The following are the views and the tasks that you can perform in each view:
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Generating a report can be divided into five broad steps:
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You can generate multiple reports simultaneously and later export them. While the reports are executing, you can monitor them and put them in the background by using the Progress view.
System Requirements
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Installing the SCA Reporter under Windows
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How to install the SCA Reporter
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The Welcome view of the SCA Reporter 3.1.0 Setup Wizard appears.
Figure 2-1
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The Install Location screen of the Setup Wizard opens.
Figure 2-2
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The Start Menu Folder screen of the Setup Wizard opens.
Figure 2-3
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The Next button is enabled.
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The Installing screen of the Setup Wizard opens.
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The Next button is enabled.
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The Installation Complete screen of the Setup Wizard opens.
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The SCA Reporter 3.1.0 Setup Wizard closes.
The SCA Reporter is now installed on the machine.
Uninstalling the SCA Reporter
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Installing the SCA Reporter under Linux
You can install the SCA Reporter under Linux, and then run it from the command line. (See "The SCA Reporter Command-Line Interface".)
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How to Install the SCA Reporter under Linux
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How to Uninstall the SCA Reporter under Linux
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Launching the SCA Reporter
You can access the SCA Reporter from the Startmenu.
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The Cisco Service Control SCA Reporter splash screen appears.
Figure 2-8
After the SCA Reporter has loaded, the main window of the SCA Reporter appears, displaying the Welcome view.
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The Templates view is displayed.
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Configuring the SCA Reporter
You must create a basic configuration for the SCA Reporter, which includes selecting a database type, connecting to a database, activating the database, and setting the IP address of the Service Control Engine (SCE) platform whose service configuration data is to be used.
In bundled mode, the Cisco Service Control Management Suite (SCMS) Collection Manager (CM) is used with the Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (Sybase ASE). The Sybase data management platform supports transaction-intensive enterprise applications. It enables you to store and retrieve information online and can warehouse information as needed. (For more information, see the Cisco Service Control Management Suite Collection Manager User Guide .) The CM can also be configured to work with Oracle and MySQL databases.
After a database is activated, you must select the IP address of one of the SCE platforms in the database. The choice is made for each repository, represented by a tab in the Preferences dialog box. All options offered in the Templates view of the SCA Reporter (available packages, services, etc.) are determined by the service configuration currently applied to the configured SCE platform. Each report is generated according to the SCE device to which it is configured. In the example configuration, there is one SCE device connected to the database and one repository preference.
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Managing Database Connections
To use the SCA Reporter, you must create and activate a connection to a database containing data generated from an SCE platform.
You can add connections to a number of databases, and then change the active database as required.
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How to Add a Database Connection
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The Preferences dialog box appears.
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The Add Database wizard appears.
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The Define new database connection screen of the Add Database wizard opens. The actual screen depends on the definition mode you selected in step 4:
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The Add Database wizard closes.
The definition of the database is added to the list in the Preferences dialog box.
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The Preferences dialog box closes.
How to Activate a Database Connection
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The Preferences dialog box appears.
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All defined database connections are listed in the table.
The currently active database (if any) is shown by a check mark (
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The Preferences dialog box closes.
Setting the IP Address of the SCE Platform
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The Preferences dialog box appears.
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The IP address of the SCE platform is set for service configuration data.
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The Preferences dialog box closes.
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How to Configure Advanced Options for the SCA Reporter
You can configure the following advanced options of the SCA Reporter:
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The Preferences dialog box appears.
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Figure 2-15
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Logging debug messages can cause the log file to grow rapidly.
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The new settings are saved.
The Preferences dialog box closes.
Accessing Online Help
You can access relevant parts of this user guide from the SCA Reporter.
How to Access Online Help
Step 1
Online help opens in a separate window.
How to Search Online Help
You can also search online help from inside the SCA Reporter.
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The Help view opens in the Reporter window.
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The Go button is enabled.
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Help topics containing your search expression are listed under Local Help.
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Quick Start
This Quick Start section will help you get started with the SCA Reporter. You will configure the Reporter, create a report instance and generate a report, and then work with the report.
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How to Create a First Report
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A popup menu appears.
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A report instance is added below the report template.
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The report instance has the same name as the report template with the addition of "#1". You can rename the report instance.
The Properties view opens in the bottom right of the SCA Reporter window, displaying the basic report instance properties.
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( not set), assign it a value.
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( Execute) to generate the report.
A report view, with the name of the report instance, opens in the top right of the SCA Reporter window, displaying a chart of the report.
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The chart display properties are shown in the Properties view.
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How to Work with a First Report
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The Properties view displays the report instance properties.
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The modified report is displayed in the report view.
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(In the illustrated example, the Select services to viewproperty was modified, and Browsing, Generic, and P2Pwere checked.)
Posted: Thu May 31 02:42:04 PDT 2007
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