How do you get ones you don't want to see, or that you don't use, from popping up on the home page? Makes manager think she's got some big issues
good Question, I would like to know how this is done as well.
Currently, your options are:
1) Delete the unused reports from Policy Reporter
2) Remove the Policy Violations Resource completely from the Home Page using Personalization
Wow, tha's not good. We have many external customers and internal business areas where the policies differ.
We certainly hear you and we're looking at adding more views and permission controls in a future version. I'd be very interested in how you'd like to see this access control work and what would be minimum bar.
For example, is minimum bar the ability to customize who could see the Policy Violations resource when they logged into the NCM website. Or is it the ability to configure who can see which Policy Reports? Or both?
This feedback is very important for our prioritization efforts so if others have comments on this, please chime in!
I think the minimum bar is just allowing each individual webviewer to select what they want to see. A configuration dialog in the web console that retrieves the available policy reports and let's the user select which ones to view or not view on the console. Allowing them to select entire groups with one click would be nice. Second to this would be the Administrator having the ability to flat out deny use of a report. Some reports may be works in progress, in testing, obsolete, etc.
Are the policy reports in the web console dynamically generated? If so I'd rather have selected of reports for viewing being scheduled as a job. Then only the static, pre-generated report delivered to the user. If they want to see the latest info they can specifically run the report.
For my situation the ultmate is of course portals with a nice security model around it that gives good granular control to what the end user is able to see. You certainly don't wan't Customer A to see Customer B or have access to info they will nag you with a 1000 questions over. If they are allowed to view certain reports, etc through the console or portal, there's good info in the NCM product that if the customer accesses directly, frees up my time to actually be a network engineer instead of the Reporting Pony. Most of us probably deal with some regulatory requirements(PCI, HIPPA, CMS/Medicare(NIST)), internal requirements, Industry Certs(ISO) so having control over who can even see data helps us avoid violating those requirements.
I would just like to be able to select a Policy Group to display (i.e. from the web panel have a secondary selection for the Policy Group to display).
Dave.
This isn't currently possible in 5.0. If you want to chime in on this feature request, please see this post:
Yes me too; I've created Custome reports based on PCI and I would at a minimum like to see my report as the default. It should be easy enough just to give me the option of which report to display on the home page...no?
Thanks,
Bob James
