Installing CA Enterprise Log Manager - CA Technologies

User and Access PlanningTo meet a given objective, it is important to run the report or alert from a serverrepresented by a particular location on your federation map and correctly specifywhether federation is needed. Examples follow:■■■To schedule a system report on self-monitoring events that occur on each CAEnterprise Log Manager server in your network, run the report from themanagement/reporting server and specify federated.To schedule a report on recent (warm) events, run the report from themanagement/reporting server and clear the request for federated. Such areport includes recently archived data collected by all collection servers.Federation is not needed.To schedule an alert that includes new (hot) events from each collectionserver and archived (warm) events on the management/reporting server,run the alert from any collection server and specify federated. You can limitwhat is returned to the collection servers by specifying as result conditionsthe predefined range, within the last hour.More information:Configure a CA Enterprise Log Manager Server as a Child Server (see page 159)Server Roles (see page 18)User and Access PlanningAfter you install the first CA Enterprise Log Manager server and access it as theEiamAdmin user, you can configure the user store, configure a user as anAdministrator, and set password policies.User and access planning is limited to the following:■■■Determining whether to accept the default user store on this CA EnterpriseLog Manager server or configure an external user store. If configuration isneeded, record the required values on the supplied work sheets.Identifying the user who will act as the first Administrator. Only anAdministrator can configure CA Enterprise Log Manager settings.Defining password policies with the goal of promoting strong passwords forCA Enterprise Log Manager users.Note: You can configure password policies only when you configure the userstore as the user store on this CA Enterprise Log Manager.More information:External LDAP Directory Worksheet (see page 37)CA SiteMinder Worksheet (see page 38)Chapter 2: Planning Your Environment 35