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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 User Activity Reporting Module server's event log store

CA User Activity Reporting Module provides a variety of integrations for popular and common event sources including CA Technologies 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.