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Novell File Reporter 2.0.1 Released

(May 13, 2013)

Novell File Reporter 2.0.1 includes the following new features:

Advanced Filtering
You can now use advanced filtering capabilities for all File Data reports. The new Filters tab in the Report Definitions Editor allows you to specify one or more Boolean search conditions, or you can specify date-based search conditions.

Microsoft DFS Namespace Support
Novell File Reporter now presents DFS (Distributed File System) namespaces as available storage resources that can be reported on.

Directory Quota Scanning for Windows Shares from NFR Agents
NFR Agents can now scan Windows shares for directory quotas.

Novell File Reporter 2.0.0 Released

(Jan 18, 2013)

Novell File Reporter 2.0 is a significant upgrade from Novell File Reporter 1. To provide for new and future capabilities of the product, along with the extensive performance enhancements, Novell File Reporter 2 features:

  • A completely new architecture built on rewritten code
  • A new reporting framework
  • The PostgreSQL database
  • The NFR Engine with an architecture that is common with Novell Storage Manager
  • Integration with eDirectory and Active Directory

Administration: The NFRAdmin management tool has been replaced in Version 2.0 with a Web browser-based interface.

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Scans: Like Version 1, Novell File Reporter 2.0 conducts scans of storage resources. However, Version 2.0 keeps only the latest version of a scan for each storage resource. In other words, Novell File Reporter no longer keeps multiple versions of scans for each storage resource.

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Reports: In addition to the extensive file data reports of Version 1, Novell File Reporter 2 introduces reports on permissions, folder data, trending, and more detailed reporting on file data. Because Novell File Reporter 2.0 no longer keeps multiple scans of a storage resource, Comparison reports no longer compare the file content of the storage resource between two scans; instead, they now compare two selected folders on the network.

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Note: Novell Storage Manager 3.1 was also released today. Novell Storage Manager 3.1 is an integrated product update that supports Novell File Reporter 2.0 by allowing Novell File Reporter 2.0 to report on Novell Storage Manager 3.1 policies.