In most reports, you browse to and specify a file path for the report through the Target Paths tab. If you have Micro Focus File Dynamics managing your organization’s user and collaborative storage, you can have File Reporter report on the storage according to the target paths of the File Dynamics policies, rather than through a specific file path.
IMPORTANT:File Reporter 4.0 supports File Dynamics 6.0 and above.
The advantages to specifying a File Dynamics policy rather than a file path is that a policy can include many different target paths. For example, in a large organization that utilizes File Dynamics’ load balancing capabilities, 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. But if you have each of the target paths listed in a single policy, through the File Management Policies tab, all you need to do is 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.
NOTE:Procedures for integrating File Reporter with File Dynamics are included in Section 4.4, Integrating with File Dynamics.
You can specify policies for all File Reporter reports with the exception of Comparison reports, Permissions by Identity reports, and Volume Free Space reports.