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About This Guide
Sentinel
TM
is a security information and event management solution that receives information from
many sources throughout an enterprise, standardizes it, prioritizes it, and presents it to you so you
can make threat, risk, and policy related decisions.
Sentinel Rapid Deployment is a simplified version of Novell
®
Sentinel that leverages open source
PostgreSQL*, activeMQ*, and JasperReports* components. The following sections help you
understand and install the major components of the Sentinel Rapid Deployment system.
Chapter 1, “Introduction,” on page 11
Chapter 2, “What’s New in Sentinel 6.1 Rapid Deployment,” on page 19
Chapter 3, “Sentinel 6.1 Rapid Deployment System Requirements,” on page 23
Chapter 4, “Installing Sentinel 6.1 Rapid Deployment,” on page 27
Chapter 5, “Security Considerations for Sentinel 6.1 Rapid Deployment,” on page 49
Chapter 6, “Advisor Configuration,” on page 59
Chapter 7, “Testing the Sentinel 6.1 Rapid Deployment Installation,” on page 61
Chapter 8, “Uninstalling Sentinel 6.1 Rapid Deployment,” on page 73
Appendix A, “Updating the Sentinel 6.1 Rapid Deployment Hostname,” on page 77
Appendix B, “Troubleshooting Tips,” on page 79
Appendix C, “Manually Configuring Sentinel 6.1 Rapid Deployment Server for LDAP
Authentication,” on page 81
Appendix D, “Documentation Updates,” on page 83
Audience
This documentation is intended for Information Security Professionals.
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 and enter your comments there.
Additional Documentation
Sentinel technical documentation is broken down into several different volumes. They are:
Novell Sentinel 6.1 RD Installation Guide
(http://www.novell.com/documentation/
sentinel61rd/s61rd_install/data/index.html)
Novell Sentinel 6.1 RD User Guide
(http://www.novell.com/documentation/sentinel61rd/
s61rd_user/data/index.html)
Novell Sentinel 6.1 RD Reference Guide
(http://www.novell.com/documentation/sentinel61rd/
s61rd_reference/data/index.html)
Summary of Contents for Sentinel Rapid Deployment 6.1
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