Sentinel Data Manager; Sentinel Solution Designer; Sentinel Collector Builder; Sentinel Server Components - Novell SENTINEL 6.1 SP2 - INSTALLATION GUIDE 02-2010 Installation Manual

Reporting: Historical reports and metrics
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Event Source Management: Collector deployment and monitoring
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1.2.2 Sentinel Data Manager

Sentinel Data Manager (SDM) allows you to manage the Sentinel Database. You can perform the
following operations in the SDM:
 Monitor Database Space Utilization
 View and Manage Database Partitions
 Manage Database Archives
 Import Data into the Database

1.2.3 Sentinel Solution Designer

Sentinel Solution Designer is used to create and modify Solution Packs, which are packaged sets of
Sentinel content, such as reports, correlation rules, and workflows.

1.2.4 Sentinel Collector Builder

Sentinel Collector Builder enables you to build Collectors in the Sentinel proprietary language to
process events. You can create and customize the templates so that the Collector can parse the data.

1.3 Sentinel Server Components

Sentinel is made up of several components:
 Data Access Service (DAS)
 Sentinel Communication Server
 Sentinel Database
 Sentinel Collector Manager
Correlation Engine
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 iTRAC
TM
Crystal Reports Server *
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Sentinel Advisor and Exploit Detection (optional)
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1.3.1 Sentinel Server

The Data Access Service (DAS) is the primary component used to communicate with the Sentinel
database. DAS and other server components work together to store events received from the
Collector Managers in the database, filter data, process Active View displays, perform database
queries and process results, and manage administrative tasks such as user authentication and
authorization.
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