Set up ePO Server Tasks for Endpoint Privilege Management Reporting

There are two BeyondTrust ePO server tasks that you can set up for Endpoint Privilege Management Reporting:

  • Create the Reporting Event Staging server task
  • Create the Reporting Purge server task

There is an additional server task that you can create if you have a business need to purge the events from the BeyondTrust table in the ePO database only.

We recommend you use the built-in ePO server task called Purge Rolled up Data rather than this server task. This will remove all the events from the BeyondTrust table in the ePO database and the Reporting database.

For more information, please see the following:

Create the Reporting Event Staging Server Task

The Reporting Event Staging server task takes report events from the ePO database and inserts them into the BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management Reporting database. You need to create this task to view BeyondTrust reports.

Click the Menu button and select Automation, Server Taks, and select New Task.

  1. Navigate to Menu > Automation > Server Tasks and select New Task.

 

  1. Enter an appropriate name (BeyondTrust Event Staging, for example), leave the Schedule status as Enabled, and click Next.
  2. Select BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management Reporting Event Staging from the Actions dropdown menu and click Next.

ePO staging server settings. The values shown are, from top to bottom: 55, 1, 60, 0, 5

  1. Adjust the times to check for events to suit your environment and click Next.
    • Time in minutes to check for staging events: The recommended value is 55 minutes.
    • Number of events to transfer for each transaction (batch size): The default value is 1. Only increase the value if there is a lag in performance throughput between ePO to Endpoint Privilege Management Reporting.
    • Time in seconds to sleep when there are no events: The recommended value is 60 seconds.
    • Time in milliseconds to pause between reading each event: The default and recommended value is 0.
    • Time in minutes between polling the queue lengths: The recommended value is 5 minutes.
    • Verbose logging: By default, verbose logging is turned off. Only use verbose logging when you need more details about the events being collected.

 

  1. On the Schedule page, set the Schedule type to your preference.
  2. Select the Start date and End date if required. By default, No end date is selected.
  3. Adjust the time that you want the schedule to run. This is the time of the machine running the ePO server. Click Next. You are presented with a summary of the server task.
  4. Select Save to finish creating the server task.

Create the Enterprise Reporting Purge Server Task

You can purge Reporting database events that are older than a defined period in order to manage the size of your database.

Click the Menu button and select Automation, Server Taks, and select New Task.

  1. Navigate to Menu > Automation > Server Tasks and select New Task.

 

  1. Enter an appropriate name (BeyondTrust Purge, for example), leave Schedule status as Enabled, and click Next.
  2. Select BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management Reporting Purge from the Actions dropdown menu.

On the Server Task Builder page, select a task to take from the Actions list.

  1. Choose the number of months to purge events older than.

 

  1. On the Schedule page set the Schedule type to your preference.
  2. Select the Start date and End date, if required. By default, No end date is selected.
  3. Adjust the time that you want the schedule to run. This is the time of the machine running the ePO server. Click Next. You are presented with a summary of the server task.
  4. Click Save to finish creating the server task.