Report Publishing

MOM Reporting allows you to publish reports in several ways. These reports can be made available through the MOM Administrator Consoles and the Web Console, or from another location using Internet Explorer. You can also configure Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 (MOM) to automatically generate and publish reports to HTML files or to a printer.

MOM provides flexible components that allow you to setup your configuration groups in many ways. To support report generation and publication, the default configuration values are set for configurations where MOM Reporting, the Web Console server, and DAS are installed on the same computer. Microsoft IIS must also be installed on that computer.

As a best practice, install MOM Reporting on a separate node from Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 to prevent memory and CPU usage by Access from impacting performance.

The MOM installation program creates directories and sets several configuration values to support HTML report generation and publication:

• When you install MOM Reporting, the installation program creates a physical directory where the generated reports for that MOM Reporting component are stored. The default location is Program Files\Microsoft Operations Manager 2000\Event\Reports.
• When you install MOM Reporting and the Web Console server on an IIS computer, the installation program creates the MOM Reporting virtual directory that points to the Reports physical directory on that local computer.

• In addition, if the database is not installed on that computer, the installation program prompts you for the database computer name. Then, if you have not installed another Web Console server with MOM Reporting for that database, the installation program stores the location of the MOM Reporting virtual directory in the database.

• The Web Console server and the MOM Administrator Consoles allow you to view Web reports. These interfaces access the reports published in the folder that is specified in the database to which they are connected. You can change the specified folder through the Configuration snap-in.
• MOM Reporting is configured to publish HTML reports to the Reports physical directory on the local computer. You can change this location through the HTML Properties window in MOM Reporting. For example, you can save the reports to a shared location. Then, users with Read permission to that location can use Internet Explorer to view those HTML reports.
• With the Web Console server and DAS on the same computer, the Web Console server can use Integrated Windows Authentication. If the Web Console server is not on the same computer as DAS, the Web Console server must use Basic authentication.