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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:

• Operating system (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) for the soft appliance
• CA User Activity Reporting Module Server
• CA User Activity Reporting Module Agent (hereafter referred to as the agent)

In the following illustration, CA User Activity Reporting Module 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.

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 User Activity Reporting Module application. As soon you configure your sources to push syslogs to CA User Activity Reporting Module 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