Working with Reports

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SMS 2003 provides you with a number of predefined reports that you can use to quickly gather a wide variety of information about your SMS operations. You create and manage reports by using the SMS Administrator console. You run and display the results of a report by using Report Viewer, which requires Internet Explorer 5.0 or later. You can view and navigate the list of reports by using either the SMS Administrator console or Report Viewer.

This section includes information about:

  • Creating and managing reports.

  • Creating and modifying SQL statements.

Before you can begin using SMS reporting, you must enable one or more of your site systems as a reporting point. A reporting point is a site system that hosts the code for Report Viewer and any supplemental reports.

SMS 2003 does not automatically enable reporting points. You must enable all reporting points as required to provide access to reports in your site. To balance a heavy demand for reports in a larger site, you can enable more than one reporting point and then point different groups of users to different URLs for each reporting point. When you start Report Viewer from the SMS Administrator console, you select the specific reporting point that you want to use.

For more information about how to create an SMS site system and enable a reporting point, see Chapter 15, "Deploying and Configuring SMS Sites," in the Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 Concepts, Planning, and Deployment Guide.

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