Architecture - Novell IDENTITY AUDIT 1.0 - GUIDE Manual

Novell Identity Audit interface (Administrator View)
Figure 1-1
The Identity Audit pages automatically refresh every 30 seconds to show updates by other users, if
applicable.
The interface is available in multiple languages (English, French, German, Italian, Japanese,
Portuguese, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese). It defaults to the browser's
default language, but users can select another language at login.
NOTE: Although the interface is localized into double-byte languages, the current release of
Identity Audit does not process double-byte event data.

1.3 Architecture

Identity Audit collects data from multiple Novell identity and security applications. These
application servers are configured to generate event records, and each hosts a Platform Agent. Event
data is forwarded by the Platform Agent to an Audit Connector that resides on the Identity Audit
Server.
The Audit Connector passes events to the Data Collection component, which parses the events and
puts them on the Communication Bus, which is the backbone of the system and brokers most
communication between components. As part of Data Collection, incoming events are evaluated by
a set of filtering rules. These rules filter events and send them to output channels such as a file, a
syslog relay, or an SMTP relay.
In addition, all events are stored in the Identity Audit database (powered by PostgreSQL*), in
partitioned tables.
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