About This Guide - Novell SENTINEL LOG MANAGER 1.0.0.5 - ADMINISTRATION GUIDE 03-31-2010 Administration Manual

About This Guide

This guide assumes that you have already installed Novell
machine. This guide provides an overview of Novell Sentinel Log Manager and also guides in
administering the product and users.
Chapter 2, "Security Considerations for Sentinel Log Manager," on page 13
Chapter 3, "Configuring Data Storage," on page 21
Chapter 4, "Configuring Data Collection," on page 47
Chapter 5, "Searching," on page 75
Chapter 6, "Reporting," on page 91
Chapter 7, "Configuring Rules," on page 111
Chapter 8, "User Administration," on page 129
Chapter 9, "Managing License Keys," on page 137
Chapter 10, "Command Line Utilities," on page 141
Appendix A, "Managing Data," on page 145
Appendix B, "Truststore," on page 147
Appendix C, "Event Fields," on page 149
Appendix D, "Sentinel Log Manager Reports," on page 159
Appendix E, "Collector Scripts," on page 165
Appendix F, "Syslog Collector Package Policy," on page 167
Audience
This guide is intended for Novell Sentinel Log Manager administrators and end users.
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Additional Documentation
For more information about building your own plug-ins (for example, JasperReports*), go to the
Sentinel SDK Web page
build environment for Sentinel Log Manager report plug-ins is identical to what is documented for
Novell Sentinel.
For more information about the Sentinel documentation refer to the
site (http://www.novell.com/documentation/sentinel61/index.html).
For more information about installation and system requirements, see
Installation Guide.
Novell Documentation Feedback Web site (http://www.novell.com/
and enter your comments there.
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