SmartEvent Terminology
Introduction
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SmartDashboard
: A SmartConsole GUI application that is used by the system administrator to create
and manage the security policy.
Management High Availability (HA)
: Refers to a configuration in which a primary Security
Management server has one or more backup secondary Security Management servers which are ready
to take over in case of failure of the primary Security Management server.
SmartEvent Terminology
SmartEvent and Reporter Suite:
Includes SmartEvent and SmartReporter.
SmartEvent:
A system that reads logs and generates events based on an Event Policy. An IPS
event-only version is also available. Based on the configuration, SmartEvent contains these
components:
SmartEvent Client
(or
IPS Event Analysis Client
)
:
A GUI that displays events (or IPS events)
in many graphical, list and map forms and provides user control of the policy.
SmartEvent Server
(or
IPS Event Analysis Server
)
:
Holds the event (or IPS event) database,
event queries, object values and policy definition.
SmartEvent Correlation Unit:
An engine which reads logs and creates events.
SmartReporter:
A system that reads logs and generates statistical and data reports. SmartReporter
contains these components:
SmartReporter Client:
A GUI to generate, define and display reports.
SmartReporter Server:
Contains reports, report definitions and report schedules.
Log Consolidator:
Reads logs, consolidates them according to the consolidation policy and
adds them to the SmartReporter database.
