Advanced Options: Report Detail Level

Advanced Options provide a choice of size for the baseline drift report.

The default choice is Full details, which generates a drift report that includes details of top-level files and all individual files associated with them. The other choice is Summary only, which generates reports that include details at the top (file group) level and shows details of individual files only when requested (that is, when you click the file group to get details). The following table shows some considerations in selecting an option.

Table 1. Report Size Options

Differences	Summary Only Report	Full Details Report
Level of Detail	Initially reports results by file groups. Individual-file-level report is generated on demand when you click on a file group.	Contains individual files
Database size	Small size in database	Large size (approximately 10 times larger than Summary)
Creation Speed	Faster to generate	Slower to generate
Report Access Speed	Slower to view	Faster to view
Compatibility with Dashboard	Not suitable for graphing (portlets) and extensive analysis because it lacks file-level details such as threat, trust, and publisher/company	Suitable for graphing and analysis by grouping, filtering, etc.