This guide contains the basic tasks you need to complete to start collecting events through Log Collection.
This guide tells you:
- What Log Collection does, how it works from a high level, and provides high-level deployment diagrams.
- How to start collecting events.
- Where to find instructions to set up more complex deployments.
- How to start any collection protocol.
- What the structure of the Log Collection Configuration User Interface is.
- Which tools to use to troubleshoot Log Collection issues and lists global troubleshooting instructions.
- How to fine tune and customize Log Collection in your environment.
This guide does not tell you how to:
- Deploy Log Collection in multiple locations with high availability and load balancing. This information is in the Log Collection Deployment Guide.
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Configure Log Collection as a whole after deployment. This information is in the Log Collection Configuration Guide.
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Configure individual collection protocols. Instructions are in the individual Log Collection Guides:
- AWS (CloudTrail) Collection Configuration Guide
- Check Point Collection Configuration Guide
- File Collection Protocol Configuration Guide
- Netflow Collection Configuration Guide
- ODBC Collection Configuration Guide
- SDEE Collection Configuration Guide
- SNMP Collection Configuration Guide
- VMware Collection Configuration Guide
- Windows Collection Configuration Guide
- Windows Legacy and NetApp Collection Configuration Guide
- Configuration Guides for each supported event source are available on the Supported Event Sources page.
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