Collector Builder is a standalone application that is used to build, configure and debug Collectors. This application serves as an integrated development environment (or IDE) that allows the user to create new Collectors to parse data from source devices using a special-purpose interpretive language designed to handle the nature of network and security events.

ESM introduces a new hierarchy of deployment objects that allow users to group multiple connections into sets. The hierarchy is as follows:

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The Event Source, Event Source Server, Collector, and Connector are configuration related objects and can be added through the ESM user interface.