Managing system settings

This group of settings and configurations is to ensure the functionality of the Reporting Services components.

  1. Open the Tools dashboard and select Report Administration. The Reporting Services Administration screen is displayed.
  2. Select Server Administration > System Settings. The System Settings screen is displayed.
  3. Specify this information:
    Archive Button
    Select to archive the reports that meet the criteria set up on the individual report.
    Document Audit
    Select True or False to set document auditing. See, Working with report auditing.
  4. Specify the Security information:
    Reporting Services Administrator Role
    Specify the Reporting Services administrator role. This role is responsible for the security of system and data. The role that you specify can be any role defined in the Framework Services system. The role name Administrators is used as the default value during the install.
    Reporting Services Rights Administrator Role
    Specify the Reporting Services rights administrator role. This role is responsible for managing the bursting rights. The role that you specify can be any role defined in the Framework Services system. The role name Rights Administrators is used as the default value during the installation.
  5. Specify the Crystal Reports Server Configuration information:
    Default Report Application Server
    Specify the location of the default Crystal server that you want to use. You can change this setting on the individual report's data settings. If the Crystal server is on the same machine as Reporting Services, this value is typically 127.0.0.1. You can also specify a server name.
    Thread Pool Size (number of publications to burst concurrently)
    Select the number of publications to be processed simultaneously.
    Asynchronous Request set up
    Specify whether to disable or enable the web server requests by the Crystal Report Viewer.

    In RS System Settings, the Advanced Report Application Settings link is added. Click the link to show the list of RAS servers on the next page.

    If there is a value in Default Report Application Server, the list only shows one CRAS server.

    If the Default Report Application Server has no value, the list displayed is based from the CRAS servers indicated in the clientSDKOptions.xml from the Reporting Services.ear\WEB-INF\classes folder.

    In the Advances Report Application Settings page, the user may stop a running service, start a stopped service, or restart the service. Click Refresh Data to refresh the status of the RAS services.

    Note: The change in status depends on the RAS services processing. The maximum waiting time for automatic change in status is 1 minute. If the waiting time lapsed and RAS is still processing, the Refresh data link is displayed. Click Refresh data to manually update the status of the RAS services.

    When enabled, managing RAS services are logged in System/User Setting Audit.

    The Access Denied error is displayed if WAS is not running as a windows service or if the WAS service is not set up with an Administrator account in the RAS server.

    This feature only covers single and multiple vertically-scaled RAS servers. To properly configure a RAS health check, you must run installvalidator to retrieve the correct value for the the RAS config path. To complete this configuration, contact your CloudSuite administrator.

  6. Specify the Default Drill Around information:
    Note: You can override the default drill around settings by adding drill around settings to individual reports.
    Status
    Select whether you want to the Reporting Services to expire drill strings in report instances.
    • Click Disable if you do not want to use drill strings.
    • Click Enable if you want to use drill strings and control when they expire.
    Expiration Date
    If you selected Enabled, specify when you want drill strings to expire for instances of reports.
    • No expiration
    • When next instance is created

    • After a specific number of days

    Enable PDF links (for modern browsers)
    Specify whether to enable PDF links on reports. This option is for users of browsers such as Chrome and Edge.
  7. Specify the Crystal Reports Schedule Queue information:
    Report Schedule Queue Enabled
    This option is only applicable for new Report Schedules. An unchecked option denotes that:
    • The feature is disabled.
    • The Report Schedule Queue check box is disabled and unchecked in the Report Schedule page.

    A checked option denotes that:

    • The feature is enabled.
    • In the Report Schedule page, the Report Schedule Queue check box is:
      • Checked and enabled, if the Default On is selected
      • Unchecked and enabled, if the Default Off is selected
      • Checked and disabled, if the Forced on is selected
    Turn all existing schedule to
    Select On to enable the feature on all existing report schedules. The Report Schedule Queue check box is checked and enabled in the Report Schedule page.

    Select Off to disable the feature on all existing report schedules. The Report Schedule Queue check box is enabled and unchecked in the Report Schedule page.

  8. System/User Settings Audit is a logging capability of Reporting Services that audits changes, deletions, and additions on system or user settings. Specify this information:
    System/User Settings Audit Enabled

    Select True to enable System/User Settings Audit. Select False to disable this feature.

    All logs are saved in a file named log4j_fisma.log. Archives of previous logs are compressed as .zip files.

    The pattern for the logs is 27 Nov 2013 15:01:33,150 | WebContainer : 1 | userid| ADD/UPDATE/DELETE | Bean.toString() value

    or ID or name
  9. Click Save.