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ADM Repository Reference Guide

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Figure 1-1. Collection, Management, and Storage of ADM Data

ThedatastoredintheADMdatabasecannotbecustomizedormanipulatedforcreatingcustomreports.

Therefore,ADMprovidesfunctionalityforexportingthedataintoanADMexternalrepository,fromwhich

customreportsarecreated.

Thedatatransferredtotheexternalrepositoryisnotreal‐timedata.Itissynchronized

atregularintervalsas

definedintheExternalReportsSchemeConfigurationpolicy.

Synchronizing the External Database

Figure 1‐2illustrateshowtheADMexternaldatabaseissynchronizedwiththeADMrepositorythroughthe

ETL(Extract‐Transform‐Load)process.ExtractionandtransformationisdonethroughADMandloadingis

donebytheadm_olapcomponentontheexternaldatabasehost.

Figure 1-2. External Database Synchronization Process

Thesynchronizationprocesscomprisesofthefollowingsteps:

1Thesynchronization

istriggeredaccordingtothesettingsintheExternalReportsSchemeConfiguration

policy.

2ADMchecksthestatusofthereplicationtoensurethattheprevioussynchronizationandthatanyreport

requestsagainsttheexternaldatabasehascompleted.

3ADMextractsthedatafilesfortheloadprocessasfollows:

aTheReportSchema

isextractedandtranslatedto.csvfiles.

bThedatafilesarecompressedandplacedtogetherinasingleZiparchive.

cTheZipfileisuploadedtotheassignedFTPserver.

Database

detail

passive

Discovery

Management

database

server

flat files

data download

ADM_OLAP

Reporting Schema

FTP server

ADM

flat files

data upload

load flat files into

ADM_OLAP Schema

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