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diff --git a/doc/reports.xml b/doc/reports.xml index 9f9a46516..76f609fb8 100644 --- a/doc/reports.xml +++ b/doc/reports.xml @@ -50,14 +50,22 @@ </section> <section> - <title>Concepts -- Why to report, big picture</title> + <title>Concepts; Why to report</title> - <para>So you'll recive a report-- however you might get it--and - it'll contain any sort of info, like general net health, or specific - node broken packages, or... whatever. You choose. This will help you - correct your configuratin file, and audit things, and fix any nodes - that got all hosed. - </para> + <para>Reports play an important role in effectively managing systems + with BCFG. There are two primary functions they fulfill; providing + otherwise unobtainable information, and presenting additional + helpful information to allow for easier admistration. Reports + can contain information including system statistics, discrepancies + between specified and actual configuration, invalid configuration, + and auditing information among other things.</para> + + <para>The flexible XML configuration file allows reports to be configured + to deliver only the information that is important. Additional reports + can easily be created, providing site-specific capability to manage + at record effiency. The capability to harvest information regarding + statistics, configuration, and problems in a single location should + prove to be powerful.</para> </section> <section> @@ -172,7 +180,7 @@ </varlistentry> </variablelist> - <para>Here is a list of possible delivery mechanisms.</para> + <para>A list of delivery mechanisms follows:</para> <variablelist> <varlistentry> |