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Using BrightStor Portal for Reporting Follow these steps to run a BAB for Laptops & Desktops Session Details Report: 1. Open the Report Manager. There are several ways to do this: ■ From the BrightStor ARCserve Backup Home Page, click the Report Manager link in the Quick Start section. ■ From the Quick Start menu, select Report. 2. Expand Reports, expand Media Reports, and select BAB for Laptops & Desktops Session Details Report. 3. Select one of the viewing options to view the report: Print Preview, Print to File, or Print to Printer. The report identifies all BrightStor ARCserve Backup for Laptops & Desktops files and their locations. If the value in the Name Space column is "Unknown," then the file is expired. Using BrightStor Portal for Reporting BrightStor Portal is a separately sold management tool that provides a common interface for you to view, implement, report on, analyze, and monitor storage management procedures for many different technologies across a wide variety of platforms. Among these technologies is BrightStor ARCserve Backup. If you use BrightStor Portal, you can use it to view and customize real-time reports on the backup and recovery tasks performed by BrightStor ARCserve Backup. To customize real-time reports, perform the following tasks: ■ Configure the BrightStor Portal to perform a Host Discovery to discover the network objects that can have storage management applications/assets on them. ■ Configure an Application Discovery to determine if BrightStor ARCserve Backup is available on the these hosts, and then, using the results of the Host and Application Discovery, specify the BrightStor ARCserve Backup Methods (or specific BrightStor ARCserve Backup components) you want to run reports on by using the Portal. For more information on configuring BrightStor Portal, see the BrightStor Portal Getting Started. 8-30 Administrator Guide