Use the Core Services Configuration Utility to specify settings such as types of domains you want to include when discovering systems, types of alerts, and email addresses to receive alerts. The Core Services Configuration Utility resides on the same computer on which you installed Core Services. For more information about this utility and customizing Core Services, see the Help for the Core Services Configuration Utility.
By default, the Core Services Configuration Utility does not display the Advanced tab.
Close the utility, if it is open.
Run the config.bat program, by default in the installation_directory\Core Services\bin folder.
Open the Core Services Configuration Utility.
Select the Advanced tab.
You can enable event logging in Secure Configuration Manager and use the event log file as input to any other application. Once you enable Core Services to log events, you can specify whether to gather data from Web console sessions.
To enable event logging:
Go to the Advanced tab in the Core Configuration Utility.
Set the value of the eventlog/enabled field to true.
Restart NetIQ Core Services.
You can now find the events information in the C:\Program Files (x86)\NetIQ\Secure Configuration Manager\Core Services\log\smevent.log file.
NOTE:For more information, see the Core Services Configuration Utility online help.
When you enable logging for the Web console, Secure Configuration Manager stores information such as error messages and warnings in the event log.
For more information about enabling logging in the Web console, see Logging Web Console Activity
in the Help.
You can enable interim local storage of Microsoft Excel reports to enhance the report distribution performance.
Secure Configuration Manager saves Microsoft Excel reports in a local directory (C:\Program Files (x86)\NetIQ\Secure Configuration Manager\Core Services\tmp) in the interim, while also saving them in a network location. If there is a network connectivity outage and reports are not saved in the network location, you can manually copy the reports from the local directory to the network location.
To enable Secure Configuration Manager to save Microsoft Excel reports in a local directory:
Go to the Advanced tab in the Core Configuration Utility.
Change the value of the gladiator/report/Report Export Save Excel Locally/Enabled field to true.
Restart NetIQ Core Services.
You can configure Secure Configuration Manager to distribute reports only if the score is greater than zero.
Perform the following steps:
Go to the Advanced tab in the Core Configuration Utility.
Set the value of the gladiator/EnableDistributionOnlyOnViolation field to true.
If you set this value to false, Secure Configuration Manager distributes all the reports, irrespective of the score.
Restart NetIQ Core Services.
NOTE:For more information, see the Core Configuration Utility online help.
You can configure scheduled jobs to not run immediately when the Core Services restarts after a downtime. This helps you to avoid too many jobs simultaneously running after Core Services starts.
For example, if the Core Services computer has stopped at 9 a.m. because of an outage and restarts at 10.30 a.m., and you have scheduled 25 jobs to run at 10 a.m., those jobs might run immediately after Core Services restarts.
Perform the following step to configure scheduled jobs to not run immediately after Core Services restarts following a downtime:
Go to the Advanced tab in the Core Configuration Utility.
Set the value of the scheduler/jobs/disabled field to True.
Restart NetIQ Core Services.