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Your Network--Before Installation

Federal regulations and mandates require log record management. To comply, you must:

• Make logs available for auditing.
• Store logs for years.
• Restore logs upon request.

What makes log records difficult to manage is their large number, their location, and their temporary nature. Logs are generated continuously by user and process activity on software. The rate of generation is measured in events per second (eps). Raw events are recorded on every active system, database, and application in your network. Backing up log records for storage must be done at each event source before they are overwritten. Restoring event logs is difficult when backups from different event sources are stored separately.

What makes raw events tedious to interpret is their string format where the event severity does not stand out. Also, similar data from different systems varies.

Operational efficiency demands a solution that consolidates all logs, makes logs easy to read, automates archiving to storage, and simplifies log restoration. CA Enterprise Log Manager offers these benefits, and lets you send alerts to individuals and systems when critical events occur.