Sentinel Data Access Service; Reconfiguring Database Connection Properties; Das Container Files - Novell SENTINEL 6.1 SP2 - REFERENCE GUIDE 02-2010 Reference Manual

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The Data Access Service (DAS) process is Sentinel Server's persistence service and provides a
message bus interface to the database. Some of the services it provides are event storage, Historical
Query, event drill down, vulnerability and Advisor data retrieval, and configuration manipulation.

5.1 DAS Container Files

DAS is a collection of services provided by five different processes. Each process is a container
responsible for different types of database operations. These processes are:
DAS Query: Performs general Sentinel Service operations including Login and Historical
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Query.
DAS Binary: Performs event database insertion.
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DAS RT: Provides the server-side functionality for Active Views.
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DAS Aggregation: Calculates event data summaries that are used in reports.
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DAS iTRAC: Provides the server-side functionality for the Sentinel iTRAC functionality.
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DAS CMD: Provides a command line interface to certain DAS services. Used primarily for
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third-party integration.
DAS Proxy: Provides the server-side of the SSL proxy connection to Sentinel Server.
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DAS Proxy is not directly part of the DAS collection of services. It is part of the Communication
Server and does not directly connect to the database.

5.1.1 Reconfiguring Database Connection Properties

The primary settings in these configuration files that can be configured using the dbconfig utility are
related to the database connection, including:
username
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password
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hostname
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port number
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database (database name)
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server (oracle, oracle10g, or mssql)
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If any of these database connection settings need to be changed, they must be changed in every
file using the
das_*.xml
the same time (For example, update all files in the %ESEC_HOME%\config or $ESEC_HOME/
config directory). Alternately, using the –n argument, this utility can update a single file's contents if
only one file need to be updated. Typically, all files should be updated at the same time.
WARNING: Do not manually edit the database connection properties. Use the
change any database connection values within these files.
utility. Using the –a argument, this utility can update all files at
dbconfig
utility to
dbconfig
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