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This eigth installment of the tutorial series will focus on a feature which will be revolutionary for OSSIM for sure: tight jasperserver integration for custom/periodic reports with the guarantee of a strong BI suite. The upcoming installer release will include both Tomcat as well as JasperServer ready to use and with sample preloaded reports and datasources. (Note: Installer beta2 users can already test some of this out, although no real tight integration until beta4 will be in place).

If you haven't heard about JasperServer nor iReport you can them check out JasperServer and iReport for some background. Quoting those two pages:

"JasperServer is a high-performance business intelligence platform and report server designed for developers and businesses. Deploy JasperServer when end-users need to create their own ad hoc queries, reports, charts, crosstabs, dashboards, or it becomes necessary to secure, store, schedule, distribute, share, drill-down, or interact with reports."

"iReport is a graphical report tool for report designers, developers, and power-users. iReport provides complete coverage of all the reporting capabilities in JasperReports, JasperServer, and Jasper4Salesforce, including the creation of parameterized reports, pixel-perfect production reports, and remote JasperServer repository management".

I'm no jasperreports expert myself, I used it for report creation and I'm sure there are tons of tips and tricks experts can provide. Any comments and feedback that help improving this article will be greatly appreciated :-)

During this tutorial the following steps will be covered:

• OSSIM - iReport - JasperServer integration
• Assumptions
• iReport download and setup
• OSSIM for iReport setup
• Sample report: top events by risk/ocurrence.
• Uploading this report to jasperserver
• What to do next?
• Tips and Tricks.
• Sharing your work/fun: the Alien Forge.