Contents

Copyright Notice  Important Information  Logging and Monitoring Administration Guide  Show me the Videos  Terms  Welcome  Getting Started  Views and Reports  Logging  Event Analysis     Event Analysis with SmartEvent     What is an Event?     The SmartEvent Architecture     SmartEvent Correlation Unit     SmartEvent Correlation Unit High Availability     The SmartView Web Application     Configuring SmartEvent Policy and Settings        Opening the SmartEvent GUI Client        Policy Tab        Event Definitions and General Settings        Event Definition Parameters        Modifying Event Definitions        Event Threshold        Severity        Automatic Reactions           Creating a Mail Reaction           Creating an SNMP Trap Reaction           Creating a Block Source Reaction           Creating a Block Event Activity Reaction           Creating an External Script Automatic Reaction           Assigning an Automatic Reaction to an Event        Working Hours        Exceptions        High Level Overview of Event Identification        Creating a User-Defined Event        Eliminating False Positives        System Administration  Monitoring Traffic and Connections  Log and Index File Maintenance  Third-Party Log Formats  Log Exporter  Appendix: Manual Syslog Parsing