In the Investigate dialog, analysts can select a service or a collection to investigate. The dialog is automatically displayed when you first go to the Navigate view or Legacy Events view and have not selected a default service to investigate. To access the dialog from a current investigation, select the current service name in the toolbar.
Workflow
What do you want to do?
User Role | I want to ... | Show me how |
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Incident Responder or Threat Hunter | review detections and signals seen in my environment | NetWitness Platform Getting Started Guide |
Incident Responder | review critical incidents or alerts | NetWitness Respond User Guide |
Threat Hunter | query a service, metadata, and time range* | Begin an Investigation in the Events View Begin an Investigation in the Navigate or Legacy Events View |
Threat Hunter | view metadata | |
Threat Hunter | view sequential events | |
Threat Hunter | reconstruct and analyze an event | |
Threat Hunter | examine files and associated hosts | Download Data in the Events View |
Threat Hunter | perform lookups | |
Threat Hunter | create an incident or add to an incident | |
Threat Hunter | add a meta value to a Context Hub list |
*You can perform this task in the current view.
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Quick Look
The Investigate dialog has two tabs: Services and Collections.
Note: Collections are also known as workbench collections. You can only view workbench collections that you have created, and only administrators can create a workbench collection.
The Services tab includes a list of services available for investigation, and three buttons. All features are described in the following table.
Feature | Description |
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Default Service | Clicking this button sets or clears the default service to investigate. When a service has been set as the default service, the word (Default) is appended to the service name. |
Name | The name of the service. |
Address | The IP address of the service. |
Type | The type of service. |
Cancel | Closes the dialog. |
Navigate | Opens the selected service in the Navigate or Legacy Events view. |
The Collections tab has two buttons and two panels: Workbench and Collections.
The Workbench panel lists available Workbench services by name. After a Workbench service is selected, you can select a collection from the Collections panel.
The Collections panel lists available collections to investigate. After a collection is selected, you can click Navigate to view the collection.
The following table describes the features of the Collections panel.
Feature | Description |
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Name | The name of the collection. |
Type | The type of collection. |
Size | The size of the collection. |
Data Type | The type of data within the collection. |
Date Created | The date the collection was created. |