About This Guide

Implementation Guide › Introduction › About This Guide

About This Guide

This CA User Activity Reporting Module Implementation Guide provides the instructions you need for planning, installing, and configuring CA User Activity Reporting Module to receive event logs from events sources in your network. The guide is organized so that tasks start with a description of the process and its goals. Processes are generally followed by relevant concepts, and then one or more procedures to accomplish the goal.

The CA User Activity Reporting Module Implementation Guide is designed for system administrators who have responsibility for installing, configuring and maintaining a log collection solution, creating users and assigning or defining their roles and access, and maintaining backup data.

This guide also assists any personnel who need information on how to do the following:

Configure a connector or adapter to collect event data
Configure services to control reporting, data retention, backup, and archive
Configure a federation of CA User Activity Reporting Module servers
Configure subscription to get content, configuration, and operating system updates

A summary of the contents follows:

Section	Description
Planning Your Environment	Describes planning activities for areas such as log collection, agents, federation, user and access management, subscription updates, and disaster recovery.
Installing CA User Activity Reporting Module	Provides work sheets for gathering required information, and detailed instructions on how to install CA User Activity Reporting Module and verify proper installation.
Configuring Basic Users and Access	Provides instructions for identifying a user store and creating the initial administrative user for the configuration of other user and access details.
Configuring Services	Provides instructions for configuring services including global and local filters, the event log store, report server, and subscription options.
Configuring Event Collection	Provides concepts and instructions for using or configuring the event refinement library components including the mapping and parsing files, and the CA Technologies adapters.
Creating Federations	Describes different types of federations and provides instructions for creating federated relationships between CA User Activity Reporting Module servers and viewing a federation graph.
Working with the Event Refinement Library	Provides high-level information about working with message parsing and data mapping files.
Considerations for CA Audit Users	Describes the interactions you can implement between CA User Activity Reporting Module and CA Audit, how to configure iRecorders and policies, and how to import data from your CA Audit Collector database.
Considerations for CA Access Control Users	Describes how to integrate with CA Access Control, how to modify CA Audit policies to send events to CA User Activity Reporting Module, how to configure a CA Access Control iRecorder to send events to CA User Activity Reporting Module, and how to import CA Access Control events form a CA Audit Collector database,
CA IT PAM Considerations	Describes the process of installing CA IT PAM such that the EEM component on the management CA User Activity Reporting Module handles authentication.
Disaster Recovery	Describes backup, restoration, and replacement procedures for ensuring recovery of your log management solution in case of disaster.
CA User Activity Reporting Module and Virtualization	Describes the process to use to create and configure a virtual machine to contain a CA User Activity Reporting Module server.

Note: For details on operating system support or system requirements, see the Release Notes. For a basic CA User Activity Reporting Module overview and use scenario, see the Overview Guide. For details on using and maintaining the product, see the Administration Guide. For help on using any CA User Activity Reporting Module page, see the online help.