Preface

Introduction

Welcome to the NetApp® ContentReporter^TM 3.0 System Administration Guide, a product from NetApp-The Network Appliance Company^TM, which is Serving Data By Design^TM.

This guide contains the information you need to install and configure the ContentReporter server, to configure your database and caches, and to set up and schedule log file collection and processing. After you have installed and configured the ContentReporter server and set up log file collection and processing, you can create and generate reports on the cache log files. See the ContentReporter 3.0 Reporting Guide for instructions on creating, scheduling and generating reports on NetCache^TM appliance, Web server, and streaming server log files.

Audience

This guide is for system administrators and others who will install, configure, and use ContentReporter to collect and process log files with an enterprise database. It assumes you are familiar with your operating system, database, network, caches, and servers. This guide does not cover basic system or network administration topics, such as IP addressing, routing, and network topology.

Terminology and conventions

This guide uses the term "type" to mean pressing one or more keys on the keyboard. It uses the term "enter" to mean pressing one or more keys, and then pressing the Enter key.

Keyboard conventions

When describing key combinations, this guide uses the hyphen (-) to separate individual keys. For example, "Ctrl-D" means pressing the "Control" and "D" keys simultaneously. Also, this guide uses the term "Enter" to refer to the key that generates a carriage return, although the key is named "Return" on some keyboards.

Typographic conventions

The following table describes typographic conventions used in this guide.

Convention	Type of information
Italic type	Words or characters that require special attention. File names. Placeholders for information you must supply. For example, IP=12.34.56.78 Book titles in cross-references.
`Monospaced` font	Command names. Information displayed on the system console or other computer monitors. The contents of files.
`Bold monospaced` font	Words or characters you type. What you type is always shown in lowercase letters, unless you must type it in uppercase letters.

Convention

Type of information

Italic type

Words or characters that require special attention.

File names.

Placeholders for information you must supply. For example, IP=12.34.56.78

Book titles in cross-references.

Monospaced font

Command names.

Information displayed on the system console or other computer monitors.

The contents of files.

Bold monospaced font

Words or characters you type. What you type is always shown in lowercase letters, unless you must type it in uppercase letters.

Special messages

This guide contains the following special messages:

Note
A note contains important information that helps you install or operate the system efficiently.

Caution
A caution contains instructions that you must follow to avoid loss of data.