DigitalPersona Reports

DigitalPersona Reports, an add-on component to the DigitalPersona solution, provides a wide-variety of pre-configured template-based reports for managers, administrators and auditors, including detailed information on managed computers, users, SSO events and specific reports addressing HIPAA, PCI and SOX compliance.

DigitalPersona Reports is a modern reporting system that provides high value for the enterprise by collecting Windows events logs from DigitalPersona clients and supporting numerous database views from a common SQL database.

Microsoft Power BI Desktop is a free business intelligence visualization tool built for the analyst. It easily integrates with DigitalPersona Reports to combine state-of-the-art interactive visualizations, with industry-leading data query and modeling built-in. It is not the only solution to that can be used to visualize and analyze the DigitalPersona Reports data. Customers may leverage most BI visualizers such as Cloud Power BI, YellowFin or Tableau.

How DigitalPersona Reports Work

Once DigitalPersona Reports has been set up and configured, all events generated by DigitalPersona clients will be forwarded to a designated Collector computer via the Windows Event Forwarding mechanism.

The DigitalPersona Report Event Import task, which runs every fifteen minutes on the hour, parses the forwarded events and writes them to a SQL database. Events can then be viewed and analyzed through a visualization tool such as Microsoft Power BI.

Activity events are logged whenever a designated activity occurs on a DigitalPersona client. For a complete listing and description of all events, see DigitalPersona Events.

All logged DigitalPersona client events are written to the local Windows Event Log with a name "DigitalPersona-Altus-<component name>/Operational", where <component name> is the name of the component writing the event.

Event logging happens on the client workstation/kiosk whether or not event forwarding to the Collector computer has been enabled and set up. Event collection is controlled on the Collector, where events are forwarded to the Event Viewer > Windows Log > Forwarded Events folder on the computer that DigitalPersona Reports is installed on.

Topics in this section: