Using

The BMC Defender Server product comes with a suite of web-based screens that allow you to view and search messages and configure message filters, overrides, and correlation rules. These screens, as well as specific functionality of background processes and agents, are designed to fully support enterprise wide monitoring of security.

The additional information required to deploy BMC Defender Server is available in Installing. The information present in this current section provides a basic tutorial on the steps needed to make BMC Defender Server work for you within your enterprise, including different monitoring strategies that leverage program features and modes of operation, all with the specific intention of meeting your security and compliance requirements.

This section describes the product interface, providing instructions on how best to configure and use BMC Defender Server for the management of your enterprise, including information on how to meet the objectives of regulatory compliance requirements.

This section provides information about the following topics:

• Logging in to the BMC Defender Server web interface
• Navigating the program
• Searching and querying message data
• Analyzing messages
• Reviewing ticket information
• Defining new correlation threads
• Refining and auditing correlation threads
• Creating and refining data groups
• Defining correlation alerts and tickets
• Configuring SMTP notifications
• Configuring ticket email and notifications
• Configuring email reports
• Reducing correlation and message load
• Dashboard gadgets
• Using the BMC Defender Server interface
• Using BMC Defender Server applications
• Correlating messages into groups and patterns
• BMC Defender Server automation
• BMC Defender Server tickets
• Using correlation alerts
• Using correlation triggers
• Using correlation macros
• Using correlation applications
• Localizing the BMC Defender Server
• Windows process list
• Using parse expressions
• Using the Global User Alert Plug-in software
• Using BMC Defender LDAP Tool Kit
• Using Sigma Web Framework
• Using Sigma Web Framework single sign-on URLs
• Troubleshooting Sigma Web Framework issues