Preface - Novell SENTINEL 6.1 SP2 - REFERENCE GUIDE 02-2010 Reference Manual

Preface

Sentinel is a security information and event management solution that receives information from
TM
many sources throughout an enterprise, standardizes it, prioritizes it and presents it to you to make
threat, risk and policy related decisions.
The Sentinel 6.1 Reference Guide is your reference for the following:
 Chapter 1, "SentinelTM User Reference Introduction," on page 15
 Chapter 2, "Sentinel Event Fields," on page 17
 Chapter 3, "Sentinel Control Center User Permissions," on page 31
 Chapter 4, "Sentinel Correlation Engine RuleLG Language," on page 41
 Chapter 5, "Sentinel Data Access Service," on page 51
 Chapter 6, "Sentinel Accounts and Password Changes," on page 59
 Chapter 7, "Sentinel Database Views for Oracle," on page 65
 Chapter 8, "Sentinel Database Views for Microsoft SQL Server," on page 125
Audience
This documentation is intended for Information Security Professionals.
Feedback
We want to hear your comments and suggestions about this manual and the other documentation
included with this product. Please use the User Comments feature at the bottom of each page of the
online documentation and enter your comments there.
Additional Documentation
Sentinel Technical documentation is broken down into several different volumes. They are:
 Sentinel 6.1 Installation Guide
 Sentinel 6.1 User Guide
 Sentinel 6.1 User Reference Guide
 The documentation for this product is available at
sentinel61/index.html (http://www.novell.com/documentation/sentinel61/index.html)
 Additional documentation on developing collectors (proprietary or JavaScript) and JavaScript
correlation actions is available at the Novell Developer Community web site:
developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php?title=Develop_to_Sentinel (http://developer.novell.com/
wiki/index.php?title=Develop_to_Sentinel)
Documentation Conventions
The following are the conventions used in this manual:
 Notes and Warnings
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