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What does the CE Crystal Management Server Do?

The Crystal Management Server, CMS, assists with managing the CE Framework. The Crystal Management Server consists of two databases, the crystal repository and the crystal security db.

For maintaining the security, the CMS maintains a database of users and their object rights. The CMS sets up security relationships for as to what users are able to do within the framework. The CE Framework licensing policy and enforcement are all handled as a part of CE object security. One note the security to objects, ie folder and reports, is very different from the row-level reporting security.

The CMS is also responsible for managing the objects of the CE Framework for example folder hierarchy. The report schedule information is contained within the Crystal Management Server, and via communication with the Report and Program Job Servers scheduled reports are completed.

The CMS maintains a listing of the CE Framework’s server processing. This list is constantly tapped into during report viewing to see which server process is available. For example, lets say the cache server needed to access a page server. It would go to the CMS for information on which page server was free.

Another duty of the CMS is to manage auditing of CE. In Crystal Enterprise 10, user actions are recorded into a central db. This information can assist in tuning the CE environment. For example, which reports are really never ever viewed.