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About Integrations

The set of out-of-box integrations is essentially a library of templates. These templates provide the code specific to collecting events from a particular kind of log source. An integration becomes a connector when taken from the library, configured, and applied to an event source. Integrations contain the following kinds of information:

• Data access file with information for a particular kind of event source
• Message parsing file that creates name-value pairs from collected event logs
• Data mapping file that maps the parsed name-value pairs to the common event grammar that forms the database schema for the CA Enterprise Log Manager server's event log store

CA Enterprise Log Manager provides a variety of integrations for popular and common event sources including CA products, popular firewalls, databases, operating systems, applications, and so forth. You can get additional integrations in the following ways:

• Subscription updates that include new integrations or new versions of existing ones
• Create custom integrations using the supplied wizard

You use integrations to specify the kind of event collection you want to do when you configure connectors.