Course Overview
This course teaches you the essentials of the ArcSight Logger solution – both hardware and software – as well as gives you information on how to design a complete solution. This instructor-led training course will cover the core features of the ArcSight Logger solution as well as advanced features. This course also prepares you for the Logger certification exam. The exam is administered on the last day of the class and is a hands-on, performance-based exam.
Prerequisites
- To be successful in this course, you should have the following prerequisites or knowledge:
- Common network device functions such as routers, switches, and hubs.
- TCP/IP functions such as CIDR blocks, subnets, addressing, and communications
- Windows operating systems tasks such as installations, services, sharing, and navigation
- Linux or Cent OS experience with shell command lines
- Recommended:
- Successful completion of the Use Case Foundations course or equivalent experience
- Successful completion of the Building Advanced Content course or equivalent experience
Successful completion of Flex Connector Configuration course or equivalent experience
Audience Profile
This course is intended for any system administrator or operator that will be working with Logger software or Logger Appliance.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, you'd be able to:
• Describe, access, and use the basic features and functions of ArcSight Logger
• Install and update Logger
• Configure Logger storage and retention policy settings
• Navigate to specific functions, facilities, and configuration settings within the Logger browser UI
• Describe and configure devices, device groups, Receivers, and Forwarders
• Locate and configure Network settings, error logs, remote support access, and security certificate trust
stores
• Access and manage Logger user/groups
• Explain and implement event indexing and use the Logger search builder to access field-based, full-text, and pipeline operator event search facilities
• Create Logger Dashboards and describe the built-in Logger Dashboards and Dashboard panels
• Run reports ad hoc or as scheduled jobs and publish and archive results according to given distribution and retention criteria
• Search, view, create, edit, enable, and disable real-time and scheduled alerts; configure notifications; export alerts for further analysis
• Backup and restore Logger configuration or reports and report definitions; export and import Logger Alerts and Filters; retrieve error and audit logs
Content Outline
• Describe the basic features and functions of Logger
• Describe how different Logger models are used
• Explain how the Logger processes event data
• Explain what CEF is and how it is used
• Install and configure Software Logger
• Describe how to update & uninstall Software Logger
• Initialize and configure a Logger appliance
• Log into the Logger browser interface
• List browser requirements for the Logger User Interface (UI)
• Describe functions accessible from each main tab of the Logger UI
• Navigate to specific topics within the Logger UI
• Use the Dashboards tab to graphically track basic Logger system functions
• Use appropriate options on the Configuration drop-down menu to access, configure, and verify Logger functions
• Configure a Peer Logger
• Access System Maintenance functions
• Create, edit, and delete Receivers
• Manage devices and device groups
• Associate devices with device groups
• Associate storage rules with device and storage groups
• Create, edit, and delete ESM destinations and manage SSL certificates
• Create, edit, and delete Forwarders
• Locate and configure Logger Appliance Network settings
• Obtain audit log content and enable support login
• Perform system and license updates
• Mount and configure remote storage
• Generate and install signed certificates
• Enable CAC and/or FIPS 140-2 security
• Create user groups in Logger
• Assign user group privileges
• Edit and delete user groups
• Add users in Logger
• Assign users to groups
• Edit and delete users
• Specify global login, password, and authentication settings
• Explain how (at a high level) Logger searches events
• Describe basic differences of how keyword, field-based, Regex, and pipeline
searches are performed
• Enable peer Loggers for searching
• Use a unified Search page to initiate any type of search
• Use the auto-complete feature to save time during data entry
• Describe how search results are displayed
• Narrow your search interactively using displayed results
• Use wild cards in search queries
• Explain how indexing improves search performance
• Modify field indexing
• Use the Search Builder Tool as the common user interface to create any
queries, in any combination with pipeline operators
• Customize and save field sets for customized results displays
• Apply constraints to a search
• Validate the performance of a query using a Search Analyzer
• Run a search query and analyze the results
• Refine and rerun a search with the results display
• Rerun a search at regular intervals using Auto Update
• Describe the function of a static correlation
o Use the Live Event Viewer to display real-time raw events
• Save a query as a filter or a saved search, and retrieve it later
• Describe the different types of filters used in Logger
• Create, copy, edit, or delete a shared filter
• Create and use search group filters
• Run a saved search job
• Create a saved search alert
• Save search results to the local Logger and retrieve them
• Change search parameters using Advanced Search Options
o Search Logger from the ArcSight ESM Console
• Describe the types of panels on a Dashboard
• Describe built-in Dashboards
• Create and modify a Dashboard
• Use Navigation Explorers to locate the pre-defined and user-created report
resources
• Run a report using Run, Quick Run, or Run in Background and describe the
differences
• Use time range, device/storage group, and peer logger constraints when
running a report
• Run a report as a scheduled report job
• Publish or Email report results
• Use Report Category Filters (SysAdmin)
• Manage server properties and deploy report bundles (SysAdmin)
• Use the iPackager facility to create report bundles (SysAdmin)
• Copy and save a customized report to your needs
• Use the facilities of the Adhoc Report Designer page to modify a report design
• Use the icons in the header of a report display to edit its design
• Copy and save a customized report template to your needs
• Edit a report layout to adjust the fonts, colors, and arrangement you want
• Create and edit a report query
• Explain the differences between Logger search queries and Logger report queries
• Use the SQL Editor to construct report queries
• Customize query fields with hyperlinks, formatting, and formulas
• Group query fields for reports
• Specify mandatory filtering on pre-defined fields or user-specified fields
• Create lookup values for field attributes
• Create and use parameters and parameter groups
• Modify the default home page for Reports to display a dashboard view
• Design a new report dashboard
• Configure and add Report and External Link widgets
• Change the layout and contents of a reporting dashboard
• Set preferences and views for report dashboards
• Delete report dashboards and dashboard elements
• Explain when and why alerts and notifications are generated
• Create and edit Alerts and Notifications
• Enable and disable Alerts and Notifications
• Search for and view Alerts
• Export Alerts for further analysis
• Backup and restore a Logger configuration
• Backup and restore reports and report definitions
• Export and import Logger Alerts, Dashboards, Filters, Parsers, Saved Searches, and Source Types
• Archive events for specific days and schedule daily archiving
• Retrieve error and audit logs
FAQs
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