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What You Install

It does not take long to set up a single-server solution and begin collecting events.

The installation disks include these components:

In the following illustration, CA Enterprise Log Manager is depicted as a server containing a small server, a dark (green) circle, and a database. The small server represents the local repository that stores application-level content. The dark circle represents the default agent, and the database represents the event log store where incoming event logs are processed and made available to queries and reports.

The dark (green) circles on the collection point and the other event sources represent separately installed agents. Installing agents is optional. You can collect syslogs from UNIX-compatible event sources with the default agent after completing the required configuration.

For a single-server system, you must install one CA Enterprise Log Manager server with a local user store. Optionally, you can install an agent on a collection point or on a host with an event source.

The numbers on the illustration refer to these steps:

  1. You install the operating system for the soft appliance and then you install the CA Enterprise Log Manager application. As soon you configure your sources to push syslogs to CA Enterprise Log Manager and indicate the syslog targets in the configuration of the connector for the default agent, syslogs are collected and refined for easy interpretation.
  2. (Optional) You can install an agent on a host you dedicate as a collection point or you can install agents directly on the hosts with sources that are generating events you want to collect.

Note: See the Implementation Guide for details on installing the soft appliance. See the Agent Installation Guide for details on installing agents.

More information:

Install an Agent