The event sources interface displays the health of the event source and the volume of data being received from it in events per second. The Event Sources page lists all the event sources, such as Syslog, Audit, File, and Database, that are configured in the Event Source Management interface.
You can refine the displayed event sources by selecting Collector Managers, Event Source Servers, and Collector Plug-ins. You can also specify a filter on the event source name and select particular event source health states you want to view. All of these selections and filters are stored on a per-user basis, so that each time you login to Sentinel Log Manager server you can view event sources that match your last selections.You can also perform filtering based on tags. For more information, see Section 8.7, Searching Tagged Events.
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The Event Sources page consists of different sections as shown in Figure 4-1.
Figure 4-1 Event Sources Page
Collector Managers: Lists all the Collector Managers associated with the Sentinel Log Manager system.
Event Source Servers: Lists all the event source servers associated with the Sentinel Log Manager system.
Collector Plugins: Lists all the Collector plug-ins associated with the Sentinel Log Manager system.
The Event Sources section in the right pane lists the event sources based on the options selected from the left pane.
NOTE:The Event Sources page shows event sources that were already configured or automatically detected. To manually configure additional event sources, use the Event Source Management user interface described in Configuring Data Collection for Other Event Sources.
This section has the following information:
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.The Event Sources page is displayed.
The following table explains each column of the event source section:
To select or deselect the event sources, select the check boxes next to the respective event source.
To select all the available event sources, select the check box at the top of the column.
To sort the event sources by
, , , , , and values, click the respective column header. The selected column header is displayed in bold.When you first click the column header, the event sources are arranged in the ascending order. A blue down-arrow is displayed to indicate that the sort order is ascending. When you click the column header for the second time, the sort order is changed to descending, and a blue up-arrow is displayed to indicate that the sort order is descending.
To view additional information about an event source, click the
or value of an event source.A dialog box is displayed with the additional information.Log in to Sentinel Log Manager as administrator.
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.The Collector Manager section is displayed in the Event Sources page with the following details:
Health: Indicates the health of the Collector Managers. You can sort the Collector Managers based on their health status.
Name: Displays the name of the Collector Managers. You can sort the Collector Managers in alphabetical order based on their names.
EPS: Displays the events per second value received from the event sources. You can sort the Collector Manager based on the events per second value.
To select or deselect the Collector Managers, select the check boxes next to the respective Collector Manager.
To select all the available Collector Managers, select the check box located at the top of the column.
The right pane displays the list of event sources connected to the selected Collector Managers.
If none of the Collector Managers are selected, the event sources table displays all the configured event sources.
To sort the Collector Managers by
, , and values, click the respective column header. When you click the column header the respective column header displays in bold text.To get additional information about the Collector Managers, click the
or value column, a dialog box is displayed with the additional information.Log in to the Sentinel Log Manager server as administrator.
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.The Event Source Servers section is displayed as follows:
Health: Indicates the health of the event source server. You can sort the event source servers based on their health status.
Name: Displays the names of the event source server used to parse the data from the event sources (for example, syslog Server SSL). You can sort the event source server in alphabetical order based on their names.
EPS: Displays the events per second value received from the event sources. You can sort the event source servers based on the events per second value.
To sort the event source servers by
, , and values, click the respective column header. The selected column header displays in bold text.To view additional details, click the
or value column. A dialog box is displayed with the additional information.Log in to the Sentinel Log Manager server as administrator.
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Health: Indicates the aggregate health of all event sources that are connected to the Collector plug-in.
With the exception of the green icon (healthy state), the icon does not necessarily mean that all event sources connected to the Collector plug-in are in state indicated by the icon.
The red icon (error state) indicates that one or more event sources connected to the Collector plug-in are in an error state. To get a detailed information, click the
or column value to view help information.Name: Displays the names of the Collector plug-in used to parse the data from the event sources (for example, Cisco Firewall 6.1r1). You can sort the Collector plug-ins in alphabetical order based on their names. This lists all the configured Collector plug-ins and not the Collector instances.
EPS: Displays the events per second value received from the event sources. You can sort the Collector based on the events per second value.
To select or deselect the Collector plug-ins, select the check boxes next to the respective Collector plug-in.
To select all the available Collector plug-ins, select the check box at the top of the column.
To sort the Collector plug-ins by
or values, click the appropriate column header. When you click the column header the respective column header displays in bold text.The
field displays the number of instances of the Collector plug-in. Clicking on the field displays a window with a list of Collector instances associated with the Collector plug-in.When you click the
column, a dialog box is displayed with additional information about the Collector plug-in.Log in to the Sentinel Log Manager server as an administrator.
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.To filter the event sources by name, type a name value in the filter text box, then click
.Matching is case insensitive. The name value can contain wildcard characters. Use * to match zero or more characters and use ? to match one character. If no wildcard characters are specified in the name value, it is assumed that the name value is intended to mean contains <name value>, or *<name value>*.
For example, an event source value of abc is interpreted as *abc*. Some examples of common filter types are:
If the event source name starts with abc, enter the filter value as abc*.
If the event source name ends with abc enter the filter value as *abc.
If the event source name contains abc enter the filter value as abc or *abc*.
The event source table displays the list of event sources whose name matches the value entered in the filter input box.
To filter event sources based on tags, do one of the following:
Click , then select the tags from the dialog box, based on which to search the events.
Specify the following search criteria:
@<tag_name>
For example, @HIPAA displays all events tagged with HIPPA tag.
To view the event sources based on the health status, select the
, , , or check boxes.The Event source table displays the list of event sources with the selected health states.
If none of the health states are selected, health state filtering is not performed. It is essentially equivalent to selecting all four health states.
In the Event Source section, click the
, , , and arrow links to scroll through all the event sources.The Event Source section displays 30 event sources per page.
To view the event search result for an event source, select the event source from the list and click the
link.A search is performed using the universally unique identifier (UUID) of the event source (for example, rv24:"2CBFB8A0-F24B-102C-A498-000C").
If multiple event sources are selected for search, the rv24:<UUID> expressions are combined with the OR operator in the search filter expression.
To display the event sources connected to particular Collector Managers, select one or more Collector Managers from the Collector Managers section.
If none of the Collector Managers are selected, event sources refinement is not performed based on the Collector Managers. This is not the same as selecting all Collector Managers, because it also includes event sources that are not connected to any Collector Manager.
To select or deselect the event source servers, select the check boxes next to the respective event source server.
To display only event sources connected to particular event source servers, select one or more event source servers from the Event Source Servers section.
If none of the event source servers are selected, event sources refinement is not performed based on the event source servers. This is not the same as selecting all event source servers, because it also includes event sources that are not connected to any event source server.
To select or deselect the event source servers, select the check boxes next to the respective event source server.
To display only those event sources connected to particular Collector plug-ins, select one or more Collector plug-ins from the
section.If none of the Collector plug-ins are selected, event sources refinement is not performed based on the Collector plug-in. It is essentially equivalent to selecting all of the Collector plug-ins.
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To change the data logging status for one or more event sources, select the event sources from the list.
Click
, then select either or option,Drop Data: If
is selected, the selected event sources drop all the events received. Messages are not sent to the Collectors the selected event sources are connected to.Allow Data: If
is selected, the selected event sources forward events received to the Collectors they are connected to.NOTE:If you select a large number of event sources to change, it may take a while to complete. The event sources list does not show the Drop state (
or ) until after the changes are complete, and the display is refreshed from the database.Log in to Sentinel Log Manager as an Administrator.
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Select the event sources from the list, then click
.Select the
option.The Set Collector Plugin window is displayed with the
and information.Select a new Collector plug-in, then click
.The event sources are connected to the selected Collector plug-in.
NOTE:If you select a large number of event sources to change, it may take a while to complete. The event sources list does not show the new Collector plug-in until after the changes are complete, and the display is refreshed from the database.
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To change the time zone setting for one or more event sources, select the event sources from the list, click the
link, and select the option.The
window is displayed.Select a new time zone, then click
.The selected event sources are set to the new time zone setting.
NOTE:If you select a large number of event sources to change, it may take a while to complete. The event sources list does not show the new time zone until after the changes are complete, and the display is refreshed from the database.