Best approach to report on ports in use during the month

Question

I have been asked to come up with a report once a month outlining the network devices ports that are in use per cust
omer location.
I see the report device manager but it doesnt appear to give the simple number of ports in use by the device during the past 24 hours.
Any thoughts or ideas would be great. It appears our customer doesnt want to pay for installed ports, just ports that are used during the month.
Thanks,

Answer 1

Hi Peter,
You don't say what type of reporting that you want to do? I'm assuming that it is probably something like displaying the last 1000 most recently approved forms or similar?
If that's the case then you may be able to achieve what you need using the Search Core Results Web Part with some clever querying and is likely to be the most performant method.
Once you have a result set back, you can then look at styling this using XSLT in the SCRWP or alternatively look at using the Search Query Model from code in a farm solution/webpart.
Alternatively you could look at using SSIS to extract the data using the SharePoint List into a SQL table on a nightly basis. (This article covers how to get data out of SharePoint and into SSIS..
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh368261.aspx)
Regards
Paul.
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