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File Activity Auditing for Novell® Open Enterprise ServerNovell® Sentinel™ Log Manager for Novell Open Enterprise Server allows organizations using Open Enterprise Server 2 SP2 to audit who is reading, writing or modifying files. This unique solution enables enterprise-wide monitoring and reporting of operational issues and security violations, as well as ensuring compliance with internal standards and external compliance rules.

Auditing for Novell Open Enterprise Server 2Novell Sentinel Log Manager provides an easy method to collect file-related events from Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 environments, as well as the flexibility to collect additional log data from Open Enterprise Server 2. Sentinel Log Manager supports native collection and parsing of logs from Open Enterprise Server 2 provid-ing transparency and giving administrators a centralized, holistic view of security and operations. Sentinel Log Manager for Open Enterprise Server allows organizations using Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 SP2 to easily find out who is reading, writing or modifying sensitive data stored in files. Sentinel Log Manager supports the collection of this information from file-systems including:

NCP AFP CIFS NFS

Using Novell Sentinel Log Manager, it’s easy to maintain audit trails to monitor for security violations and also ensure compliance with internal standards and external compliance rules that require log retention and reporting.

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Novell Sentinel Log Manager works with Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 SP2 out of the box and provides drill-down search and reporting of Open Enterprise Server 2 events.

Novell Sentinel Log Manager for Open Enterprise Server provides robust reporting

capabilities with usable out-of-the-box reports for Open Enterprise Server 2. It also

includes an intuitive one-click reporting feature that enables a search to be

transformed into a repeatable report.

Novell Sentinel Log Manager will automatically detect syslog sources and is easy to config ure and use with an intuitive, Web 2.0 interface.

ReportingNovell Sentinel Log Manager for Open Enterprise Server provides robust reporting capabilities with usable out-of-the-box reports for Open Enterprise Server 2. It also includes an intuitive one-click reporting feature that enables a search to be trans-formed into a repeatable report. Sentinel Log Manager’s built-in scheduler can run and e-mail reports at any time, and reports can also be run manually on an ad-hoc basis. The included reports provide rich detail and helpful summaries without any additional customization required.

Figure 2. Report showing all the times a file was modified Figure 3. Report showing a summary of file modification activity

File Activity Auditing for Novell Open Enterprise Server

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Policy-based StorageNovell Sentinel Log Manager for Open Enterprise Server solves a key storage challenge for enterprises that need to main-tain an audit trail of activities by providing policy-based data archival and retention. The system provides 10:1 compression and allows organizations the flexibility to keep data only as long as it’s needed. That means that less important data can be discarded while critical data is retained for a longer-term—significantly reducing storage costs.

Figure 4. Report providing a summary of file-related activity

Figure 5. Novell Sentinel Log Manager’s custom retention policies provide the flexibility to keep different types of log files for different periods of time.

Novell Sentinel Log Manager for Open Enterprise Server Novell Sentinel Log Manager provides easy and efficient centralized event log collection for Open Enterprise Server environments from remote locations across the IT enter-prise. As part of the Novell Sentinel product family, Sentinel Log Manager can work either as a standalone log management tool or alongside Novell Sentinel as part of a comprehensive security information and event management (SIEM) solution.

Novell Sentinel Log Manager enables customers to easily grow from a single instance to a comprehensive, enterprise-wide log management solution by providing an efficient, flexible and cost-conscious solution to distributed log collection. Through its out-of-the-box integration with Novell Sentinel, Sentinel Log Manager provides an easy route to achieving true real-time user activity monitoring to provide the highest levels of security and compli-ance in Open Enterprise Server 2—or any other environment.

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Novell Sentinel Log Manager enables customers to easily grow from a single instance to a comprehensive, enterprise-wide log management solution by providing an efficient, flexible and cost-conscious solution

to distributed log collection.