The IT Central lab assignments at Novell BrainShare 2010 last week had Condrey
Corporation people dispersed among the three tables and six workstations
showing components of the Novell File Management Suite. As the author of the Novell File Reporter documentation, I was asked to work at the eDirectory and
Active Directory Novell File Reporter demo workstations.
In a very short amount of time, it was easy to show the power of Novell File Reporter with its ability to generate reports among the server volumes of large enterprises, so that administrators could access information such as duplicate file reports, owner reports, access date age reports, filename extension reports, and more.
I recall talking to one woman who worked for a state government. Among all of her responsibilities, she had a task of periodically going through peoples’ home directories, determining which files were non-work related files and then removing them. I asked her how long this takes, and she didn’t want to say, but responded that she had now learned who the biggest storage abusers were and really focused on those individuals’ home directories, so it didn't take as longs as it used to take. She said that a few people had a real problem of storing a large amount of JPEG files.
I then asked her if she wanted the ability to quickly see how many JPEG files were being stored and where they were located. In no time, I showed her how to generate a filename extension report using Novell File Reporter. I then asked her if it would be useful to know what all of her workers were storing. She replied that this would indeed be useful, so I showed her how to generate a user report showing what all of the users in our demo network were storing.
She is just one of the many people who requested that I get back to them this week on Novell File Reporter.
To learn more about Novell File Reporter click here.
BG
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