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Chapter 18: Enterprise Scanner Logs and Alerts
Types of Alerts and Logs
Introduction
Two types of
information
Alerts and logs in
the Proventia
Manager
Selecting alerts and
logs
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To view logs and alerts, you must log on to the Proventia Manager for your agent. From
there, you can select the logs and notifications you want to see from the navigation pane.
System and ES log files provide two types of information:
Type of Information
Alerts (notifications)
Logs
Table 89: Types of log information
The following figure shows the alert and log selections available on the navigation pane of
the Proventia Manager:
Figure 42: Alert and log selections in the Proventia Manager
Alerts and logs provide details about the scanning processes controlled by the agent or the
operational processes running on the appliance. Use the Logs menu in the Proventia
Manager to select alerts and logs to view as follows:
If you want to see...
alerts (notifications)
logs
Table 90: Selecting alerts and logs in the Proventia Manager
a. This option is a shortcut to Logs
Enterprise Scanner
Description
Informational messages sent from an agent; triggered when an event
meets set criteria.
Traces the execution logic of the agent.
For...
scanning processes
scanning and operational
processes
scanning processes
operational processes
→
Alerts, with
Alert type
preselected for Alert Type.
Then select...
Logs→Scanning Alerts.
Logs→Alerts.
Logs→ES Logs.
Logs→System Logs.
preselected for Filter options and
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