Installing Additional Collector Managers; Section 3.5, "Installing Additional Collector Managers - Novell SENTINEL LOG MANAGER 1.0.0.5 - INSTALLATION GUIDE 03-31-2010 Installation Manual

5 Restart the Sentinel Log Manager process by using the following command:
Install_Directory/bin/server.sh restart

3.5 Installing Additional Collector Managers

The collector managers for Sentinel Log Manager manage all of the data collection processes and
data parsing. A collector manager is included in the Sentinel Log Manager server installation on
®
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (SLES 11), but you can also install multiple collector managers
in a distributed setup.
NOTE: Collector Manager requires network connectivity to the message bus port (61616) on the
Sentinel Log Manager server. Before the collector manager installation, all the firewall and other
network settings must be allowed to communicate over this port.
Remote collector managers provide several benefits:
Distributed event parsing and processing to improve system performance.
Collocation with event sources, which allows filtering, encryption, and data compression at the
source. This feature provides additional data security and decreases network bandwidth
requirements.
Installation on additional operating systems. For example, installation on Microsoft Windows*
to enable data collection using the WMI protocol.
File caching, which enables the remote collector manager to cache large amounts of data while
the server is temporarily busy performing archiving events or processing a spike in events. This
feature is an advantage for protocols, such as syslog, that do not natively support event caching.
Use the following procedure to download and install the Sentinel Collector Manager installer:
1 Log in to the Sentinel Log Manager as an
2 Click the collection link at the upper left corner of the page.
3 Click the Advanced tab.
4 On clicking on Download Installer link, an
displayed with the option to save the
.
administrator
Opening scm_installer.zip
file on your local machine.
scm_installer.zip
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