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Additional Collectors
During the installation of the Collector Manager, a Collector called the Generic Collector is
configured. By default, it creates events at the rate of 5 events per second (eps). This Collector can
be used to test the installation. Additional Collectors can be downloaded from the
Novell Web site
(http://support.novell.com/products/sentinel/collectors.html)
.
Starting the Collector Manager Services
Table 4-4
Starting the Collector Manager Service
Installing Additional Load Balancing Nodes for a Collector Manager
Collector managers for Sentinel manage all the data collection processes and data
parsing.Occasionally, it might be necessary to add an additional Sentinel Collector Manager node to
a Sentinel environment in order to load-balance across machines. Remote collector managers
provide several benefits:
Allow distributed event parsing and processing to improve system performance.
Allow filtering, encryption, and data compression at the source system through collocation
with event sources. This reduces network bandwidth requirements and provides additional data
security.
Allow installation on additional operating systems. For example, installing a Collector
Manager node on Microsoft Windows* to enable data collection by using the WMI protocol.
Allow file caching that enables the remote collector manager to cache large amounts of data
when the server is temporarily busy with archiving or processing a spike in events. This is an
advantage for protocols, such as syslog, that do not natively support event caching.
The Collector Manager components can be load-balanced by installing instances of these
components on additional machines. To do this, simply run the installer on the new machine as
described in the
Section 4.6.3, “Installing the Sentinel Collector Manager,” on page 37
.
Using the Admin Tab in SCC
Using the Event Source Management Option in
Sentinel Control Center
1. Launch Sentinel Control Center
2. Select
Admin tab > Servers View
.
You can also click
Servers View
in Navigator
pane.
3. Expand the
Servers view
to view the list of
processes.
4. Right-click the Collector Manager you must
start, then select
Actions > Start
.
1. Launch the Sentinel Control Center.
2. Click
Event Source Management > Live View
.
3. In the
Event Source Management
(Live View
)
window, right-click the Collector Manager you
want to start, then select
Start
.
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