DupScout Ultimate provides the ability to submit duplicate files reports from multiple servers and desktop computers into a centralized SQL database, analyze reports and display various types of charts showing the amount of duplicate disk space and the number of duplicates per host allowing one to gain an in-depth visibility into amounts of duplicate files across the entire enterprise.

In order to analyze reports from multiple hosts, the user needs to connect DupScout to an SQL Database, perform duplicate files search on multiple hosts using the DupScout GUI application or the DupScout command line utility and submit reports from all hosts to the SQL database. Once reports from all hosts are in the database, open the 'Database' dialog and press the 'Hosts' button to open the 'Hosts Statistics' dialog.

dupscout -analyze -dir \\server\share -host <Host Name> -save_to_database

The simplest way to submit reports from multiple servers or desktop computers is to use the DupScout command line utility to detect duplicate files on all required hosts through the network. In order to simplify submission of reports to the SQL database, the command line utility may be executed on the same host where the SQL database is installed on. In this case, the user needs to specify one or more network shares to be processed and the host name to be set for each report.

dupscout -analyze -dir <Local Directory> -save_report <File Name>

Another option is to execute the command line utility on each specific host, save duplicate files reports and later submit report files from all hosts to the SQL database using the DupScout GUI application. In this case, there is no need to set the host name, which will be set automatically to the name of the host the command line utility is executed on.