File Management Policy Reports

For most Built-in Reports, you specify a file path for the report through the Target Paths tab. If File Dynamics manages your organization’s user and collaborative storage, then File Reporter can report on the storage according to the target paths of the File Dynamics policies, rather than through a specific file path.

The advantage to specifying a File Dynamics policy rather than a file path is that a policy can include many different target paths.

In a large organization that utilizes File Dynamics’ load balancing capabilities, for example, a single policy might have 10 or more target paths. If you chose to specify the paths through the Target Paths tab, you would need to list all 10 paths. If you list each of the target paths in a single policy through the File Management Policies tab, however, you only need to add the single policy.

Another important advantage is that File Reporter reads the associated policy target paths each time a report is generated so that it dynamically responds to changes in assigned target paths for File Dynamics policies — see Integrating with File Dynamics for details.

You can specify policies for most of File Reporter's built-in reports except for Comparison reports, Permissions by Identity reports, and Volume Free Space reports.