Novell SENTINEL LOG MANAGER 1.0.0.5 - 03-31-2010 User manual

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Sentinel Log Manager 1.0.0.5 Installation Guide
Sentinel Log Manager 1.0.0.5
1.0.0.5
March 31, 2010
Installation Guide

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About This Guide 5
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About This Guide
This guide provides an overview of Novell®SentinelTM Log Manager and its installation.
Chapter 1, “Introduction,” on page 9
Chapter 2, “System Requirements,” on page 19
Chapter 3, “Installing and Uninstalling Novell Sentinel Log Manager,” on page 27
Audience
This guide is intended for Novell Sentinel Log Manager administrators and end users.
Feedback
We want to hear your comments and suggestions about this manual and the other documentation
included with this product. Please use the User Comments feature at the bottom of each page of the
online documentation, or go to Novell Documentation Feedback Web site (http://www.novell.com/
documentation/feedback.html) and enter your comments there.
Additional Documentation
For more information about building your own plug-ins (for example, JasperReports*), go to the
Sentinel SDK Web page (http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Develop_to_Sentinel). The
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 Sentinel Documentation Web
site (http://www.novell.com/documentation/sentinel61/index.html).
For more information about configuring Sentinel Log Manager, see Sentinel Log Manager 1.0.0.4
Administration Guide.
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Contents 7
Contents
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About This Guide 5
1 Introduction 9
1.1 Novell Sentinel Log Manager Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.1.1 What’s New in Novell Sentinel Log Manager 1.0.0.5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.1.2 What’s New in Novell Sentinel Log Manager 1.0.0.4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.1.3 Novell Sentinel Log Manager 1.0 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.2 Novell Sentinel Log Manager Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.3 Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
1.4 Terminologies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2 System Requirements 19
2.1 Hardware Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2.1.1 Sentinel Log Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2.1.2 Collector Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2.1.3 Estimating the Data Storage Space Requirement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2.1.4 Virtual Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2.2 Supported Operating Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2.2.1 Sentinel Log Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.2.2 Collector Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.3 Supported Browsers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.3.1 Setting Browser’s Internet Security Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.4 Supported Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.5 Supported Event Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3 Installing and Uninstalling Novell Sentinel Log Manager 27
3.1 System Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
3.2 Installing on an Existing Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
3.2.1 Quick Installation (as root) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
3.2.2 Non-root Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
3.3 Logging in to Novell Sentinel Log Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
3.4 Configuring Archive Server Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
3.4.1 CIFS Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
3.4.2 NFS Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
3.5 Installing Additional Collector Managers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
3.6 Post-Installation Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
3.6.1 Ping Timeout Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
3.7 Uninstalling Novell Sentinel Log Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

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Introduction
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Introduction
Novell®SentinelTM Log Manager collects data from a wide variety of devices and applications,
including intrusion detection systems, firewalls, operating systems, routers, Web servers, databases,
switches, mainframes, and antivirus event sources. Novell Sentinel Log Manager provides high
event-rate processing, long-term data retention, regional data aggregation, and simple searching and
reporting functionality for a broad range of applications and devices.
Section 1.1, “Novell Sentinel Log Manager Features,” on page 9
Section 1.2, “Novell Sentinel Log Manager Interface,” on page 13
Section 1.3, “Architecture,” on page 14
Section 1.4, “Terminologies,” on page 16
1.1 Novell Sentinel Log Manager Features
Section 1.1.1, “What’s New in Novell Sentinel Log Manager 1.0.0.5,” on page 9
Section 1.1.2, “What’s New in Novell Sentinel Log Manager 1.0.0.4,” on page 9
Section 1.1.3, “Novell Sentinel Log Manager 1.0 Features,” on page 11
1.1.1 What’s New in Novell Sentinel Log Manager 1.0.0.5
“500 EPS Version of Sentinel Log Manager” on page 9
“New End User License Agreement” on page 9
500 EPS Version of Sentinel Log Manager
The Novell Sentinel Log Manager is now available in a 500 EPS (events per second) version. The
500 EPS version is suitable for small deployments with only one Sentinel Log Manager server and a
low event rate. It can also be used as a low volume node reporting to another Sentinel or Sentinel
Log Manager server in a large deployment.
New End User License Agreement
The end user license agreement (EULA) terms have been updated in this release. You must accept
the new terms before before proceeding to apply the latest patch. Some of the changes in the EULA
are:
Novell Sentinel Log Manager is now available in a 500 EPS version.
Updated definition for Non-Production Instance .
Updated definition for Type I Device .
1.1.2 What’s New in Novell Sentinel Log Manager 1.0.0.4
“New Data Collection User Interface” on page 10
“LDAP Authentication” on page 10

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“Enhancements to the Search Result User Interface” on page 10
“New User Interface for Actions” on page 10
“Enhancement to the Admin User Interface” on page 11
New Data Collection User Interface
The new and enhanced data collection user interface enables you to perform several new tasks:
Refine all the event sources by using the new Event Sources screen.
Start and stop the audit and syslog event source server by using the new Event Source Servers
tab.
Set the time zone for event sources.
Search for events that are coming from one or many event sources.
For more information about data collection configuration, see “Configuring Data Collection” in the
Sentinel Log Manager 1.0.0.4 Administration Guide.
LDAP Authentication
Sentinel Log Manager now supports LDAP authentication in addition to the database authentication.
A new Authentication Type option has been added in the user > Add a user window of the Sentinel
Log Manager, which enables you to create user accounts that use LDAP authentication.
For more information about configuring the Sentinel Log Manager server for LDAP authentication,
see “User Administration” in the Sentinel Log Manager 1.0.0.4 Administration Guide.
Enhancements to the Search Result User Interface
The enhanced search result interface enables you to perform several new tasks:
Export search report results.
Send search results to an action.
Download the raw data files for the selected event result's event source by using the get raw
data link.
View new event fields information in the search results.
For example, it displays the Source IP address, Rawdata Record ID, Collector Script, Collector
name, Collector Manager ID, Connector ID, and Event Source ID information for the incoming
events.
View all the event fields information for the event source by using the show all fields link.
For more information about searching events and generating reports, see “Searching” in the Sentinel
Log Manager 1.0.0.4 Administration Guide.
New User Interface for Actions
The new user interface for actions allows you to create multiple action instances that you can also
use while configuring rules. You can also view the number of rules that are associated with an
action.