In the Sentinel Control Center user interface, you can perform the activities through the following components:
Sentinel Control Center provides you the “dockable” framework, which allows you to move the Toolbars, Tabs or Frames from their default location to user-specific locations for ease-of-use.
Figure 1-1 Sentinel Control Center
The menu bar has the menus required to Navigate, perform activities and change the appearance of Sentinel Control Center.
Figure 1-2 Figure 1‑2: Menu Bar
The File, Options, Event Source Management, Windows and Help menus are always available. The availability of other menus depends on your location in the console and permissions.
The Tool Bar allows you to perform the Tab specific functions. There are four system-wide toolbar buttons that are always displayed. These toolbar buttons are View Sentinel Help, Cascade All Display Windows, Tile All Display Windows and Save User Preferences. The availability of other toolbar buttons depends on your location in the console and permissions.
The system-wide toolbar buttons are:
Figure 1-3 System-Wide Toolbar
Tab-specific toolbar buttons allows you to perform the functions related to each tab.
Table 1-1 Tab Specific Toolbar Buttons
Toolbar |
View |
---|---|
Active Views |
|
Correlation |
|
Incidents |
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iTRAC |
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Analysis |
|
Admin |
For more information on Tabs-specific toolbar buttons, see the sections on each of the Tabs mentioned in the list above.
Depending on your access permissions, Sentinel Control Center displays the following tabs.
Active Views
Correlation
Incidents
iTRAC
Analysis
Advisor
Admin
For more information about Tabs, see the sections on each tab.
Sentinel provides a dock-able framework which allows you to drag frames on the screen to place them in user preferred locations. In a frame the following buttons displays, which allow you to drag/hide frames.
Toggle Floating
Toggle Auto-hide
Figure 1-4 Navigator Frame
Click Toggle Floating icon on the Frame or hold the frame and drag it to the desired location.
Click Toggle Auto-hide icon.
NOTE:You can undo dragging or reset to default position using the toolbar buttons.
Click the tab you need to work on.
Click toolbar buttons to perform the actions.
Click the tab menu in the Menu bar.
Select an action you need to perform.
NOTE:This procedure is generic for all the tabs in Sentinel Control Center. Navigation specific procedures for tabs are discussed in the relevant sections.
You can change the Sentinel Control Center’s look by:
Click Options > Tab Placement.
Select either Top or Bottom.
Click Windows > Cascade All. All open windows in the right panel cascade.
Click Windows > Tile All.
Select from the following to meet your requirement:
Tile Best Fit
Tile Vertical
Tile Horizontal
Click Windows > Minimize All. All open windows in the right panel minimize.
Click Windows > Restore All. All open windows in the right panel restores to their original size.
NOTE:Use the Minimize and Restore options provided on the top-right corner of the tab to minimize individual tabs.
Click Windows > Close All.
If the user has permissions to save their workspace, they can save the following preferences:
Permanent windows that are not dependent on data that was available at the time of their original creation.
Active Views
Summary displays
Window positions
Window sizes, including the application window
Tab positions
Navigator docked or floating and showing or hidden
The following preferences are not saved when the user logs out:
Snapshots
Historical event queries
Secondary windows opened from one of the primary windows in the Admin Navigator
Column widths in Active Views
Click File > Save Preferences or click
Click Options > Change Password.
Provide the old password.
Provide the new password and matching confirm password.
Click OK.
NOTE:For more information on password security, see Setting Passwords
in Best Practices section
in Sentinel Installation Guide.
If the hostname of a system is changed, you might need to perform some of the following actions on the system depending on the Sentinel components installed on it.
IMPORTANT:Stop Sentinel Service before you perform these actions.
You might need to update all the machines (which have components affected by the hostname change) before you restart Sentinel service on any machine.
In this scenario, the affected components are DAS and SDM. So you might need to
Update the DAS
Update SDM
The configuration file enables DAS to connect to the database. So, you need to update the configuration files to update DAS.
Login to the machine where DAS is installed as esecadm (on UNIX), or as an administrator (on Windows).
Stop the Sentinel Services running on the machine.
Go to ESEC_HOME\bin:
On Unix, type the command cd $ESEC_HOME/bin
On Windows, type the command cd /d %ESEC_HOME%\bin
Update DAS configuration files on Unix and Windows using the following commands.
On Unix, execute ./dbconfig -a ../config -h <new DB hostname>.
On Windows, execute .\dbconfig -a ..\config -h <new DB hostname>.
You require the Database Hostname to login to SDM. To login to SDM, you might need to update the Database Hostname in SDM login window.
Open Sentinel Data Manager.
In the login window, provide details of the Database, new hostname and other required details.
Click Connect.
In this scenario, the affected components are Communication Server, DAS, Correlation Engine, Sentinel Collector Manager and Sentinel Control Center. So you might need to
Update the Communication Server
Update DAS, Correlation Engine, Sentinel Collector Manager, Sentinel Control Center
You might need to re-install the Communication Server to update the Hostname change.
Login as root (Unix) or administrator (Windows) on the system where the Communication Server is installed.
Run Sentinel Uninstaller. In the Select components to Uninstall window, select Communication Server and deselect all other options.
Follow instructions in Uninstalling Sentinel
in Sentinel 6.1 Installation Guide as required and complete uninstallation.
Click Finish.
Insert (and mount, on Solaris/Linux only) the Sentinel Installer CD.
Run the setup file. In the Select components to Install window, select Communication Server only.
Follow the instructions in Installing Sentinel 6.1 SP2
in Sentinel 6.1 Installation Guide as required and complete installation.
Reboot the system.
The configuration file that connects the Communication Server and Sentinel processes needs to be updated. You might need to perform the steps given below on all machines with DAS, Correlation Engine, Collector Manager, and Sentinel Control Center installed.
Go to ESEC_HOME/config/ and edit configuration.xml.
Replace the four occurrences of the Communications Server Hostname with the new Hostname.
Save and exit the configuration.xml file.
IMPORTANT:After the steps mentioned above are performed, restart the Sentinel Services for the changes to take affect.
On the Tools menu, click Attachment Viewer Configuration or alternatively click Configure Attachment Viewers button. The Attachment Viewer Configuration window displays.
Click Add. The Attachment Identification window displays.
Specify the extension type (such as .doc, .xls, .txt, .html and so on) and click Browse or type in the application program to launch the file type (such as notepad.exe for Notepad).
Click OK.