This article provides a hands-on overview of browsing cubes in IT Analytics and the Symantec Endpoint Protection Content Pack. You will learn how to browse cubes and configure Pivot Tables using common usage scenarios. Leveraging the ad-hoc data mining capabilities of IT Analytics we will perform some forensic analysis of client’s last check in date, online status and virus definition version from Symantec Endpoint Protection.
To complete this exercise, you should have IT Analytics with the Symantec Endpoint Protection Content Pack already installed. For more information, please refer to the Connect article for installing IT Analytics.
Now that we have very quickly and easily built our initial clients view which showcases the client’s online status by group, we will expand upon this view by bringing in more information and adding filtering capabilities.
The ad-hoc nature of browsing the pivot tables and charts provides a simple and efficient way of creating custom reports on the fly, without previous knowledge of the SEP database schema or any query languages. Depening on your reporting requirements, you will want to experiment with the different cubes and fields to discover how IT Analytics can best meet your needs.