Symantec Enterprise Security Manager 9.0 Help

• Symantec Enterprise Security Manager 9.0 Help
  • Introducing Symantec Enterprise Security Manager
    • About Symantec Enterprise Security Manager
      • About separating security duties
      • About Symantec Enterprise Security Manager accounts and permissions
    • Components of Symantec Enterprise Security Manager
      • About the ESM console
        • About the regions
        • About the local summary database
        • About the scheduler
        • About the policy runs
        • About the template editor
      • About Symantec ESM managers
      • About Symantec ESM agents
    • What you can do with Symantec Enterprise Security Manager
      • About the policies
      • About the snapshots
      • About the templates
      • About the modules
      • About the suppressions
      • About Symantec Enterprise Security Manager Reporting
        • About the reports
        • About the queries
    • How Symantec Enterprise Security Manager works
      • About the Client Server Protocol
      • About the domains
      • About the security data
        • About the security levels
        • About the security ratings
      • How Symantec Enterprise Security Manager displays information
  • Using the Symantec Enterprise Security Manager console
    • Starting the ESM console
    • Configuring the ESM console on Windows
    • About accessing the ESM console
    • About changing the ESM console password
    • Using the ESM console controls
      • About the menu bar
        • About the chart information
      • About the toolbar information
      • About the enterprise tree
      • Renaming the enterprise
      • About the grid information
    • About modifying the GUI options
    • Connecting to a manager
    • Disconnecting an ESM manager
    • About viewing the manager information
    • About viewing the agent information
    • About gathering security information
    • About running security checks
      • About evaluating your network security
      • About scheduling routine security checks
    • Using the Policy Run wizard
    • About filtering report contents
    • About creating and viewing reports
  • Configuring Symantec Enterprise Security Manager
    • About enterprise license management
      • What you can do with enterprise licenses
      • Types of enterprise licenses
      • Installing a new license
      • Distributing a license
      • Revoking enterprise licenses
      • Re-allocating enterprise licenses
      • How Symantec ESM stores the enterprise license information
      • About updating the license information during upgrades
      • Viewing the manager license information
    • About configuring managers and regions
      • About the regions
      • Adding a region to the ESM console
      • Renaming a region
      • Deleting a region from the ESM console
      • Adding a manager to the ESM console
      • Adding a new region
      • Adding a manager to a region
      • Removing a manager from a region
      • Deleting a manager from the ESM console
      • Displaying a manager name
      • Moving an installed manager
    • About configuring the agents and domains
      • Creating a new domain
      • Renaming a domain
      • Duplicating a domain
      • Deleting a domain
      • Adding an agent to a domain
      • Searching an agent
      • Viewing agent information
      • Deleting an agent from a manager
      • Deleting an agent from a domain
      • About moving ESM agents across managers
        • Moving an agent from a manager by right-clicking the agent
        • Moving an agent from a manager by right-clicking the manager
        • Moving agents from a manager by dragging and dropping the source manager
        • Moving an agent from a manager by dragging and dropping on the target manager
        • Moving an agent from a domain by dragging and dropping on the target manager
        • Moving agents by right-clicking a domain
      • Checking the status of agents
    • About configuring the user accounts
      • Adding new accounts
      • Deleting a manager account
      • About modifying a manager account
      • Disabling a manager account
      • Changing the password on a manager account
        • About assigning access rights to the manager accounts
        • Modifying the manager user account access rights
    • Setting the manager password configuration
    • Changing the ESM console passwords
    • Auditing Symantec Enterprise Security Manager events
    • About updating Symantec Enterprise Security Manager
      • Enabling and disabling LiveUpdate on agents
      • Performing a LiveUpdate
      • Creating domains for specific UNIX operating systems
      • Performing a remote upgrade
      • Checking remote agent upgrade status
      • Exporting an agent list
    • About agent recovery re-registration
      • Exporting the Symantec ESM agent list
      • Re-registering the ESM agents
  • Managing policies, modules, and templates
    • About the policies, modules, and templates
      • About the policies
        • About the sample policies
        • About the standards-based policies
        • About the regulatory policies
      • About the modules
        • Accessing information about checks
      • About editing a module
    • About managing the policies
      • Creating a policy
      • Renaming a policy
      • About duplicating a policy
      • Backing up a policy
      • Restoring a policy
      • Replicating a policy
      • Maintaining the policies
      • Updating the policy information
    • About the policy tool
      • Before using the policy tool
      • About accessing the Policy tool
      • About the Policy tool command line formatting
      • About the Policy tool values
      • About the Policy tool options
      • About the Policy tool functions
    • Performing policy runs
      • Executing a policy by using the Policy Run Wizard
      • About executing a single module
      • About executing multiple modules
      • Limiting the number of messages
      • Scheduling a policy run
      • Editing a policy run schedule
      • About manager pulling data
      • About job throttling
      • Sending completion notices by email
      • Sending email notification messages
      • Viewing the status of a policy run
      • Querying Policy Runs
      • Viewing scheduled policy run information
      • Selecting agents randomly for a policy run
      • Stopping a policy run
      • Stopping policy runs at user-defined intervals
      • Deleting a policy run
    • About managing templates
      • Creating a template
      • Editing the template rows
      • Copying a template
      • Editing a template
      • Editing sublists in a template
      • Adding an item to a template
      • Adding hierarchical items to a template
      • Updating template information
      • Deleting a template
      • Removing unused templates
    • About managing security checks
      • Enabling and disabling security checks
      • About specifying options for security checks
      • About validating the security checks
    • Editing name lists
    • About Users and Groups name list precedence
  • Viewing security data
    • About viewing the summary and detailed data
    • Retrieving summary data for regions and managers
    • Updating summary data at the domain level
    • About using the ESM console grid and chart
      • Using the drill-down mode
      • Using the summary mode
      • Using the trend mode
    • Setting the chart graphics
    • About obtaining information on the messages
    • Filtering the security data
    • Using the grid functions
    • Customizing the chart appearance
      • Showing or hiding the chart legend
      • Showing or hiding the series labels
      • Selecting 2D or 3D chart graphics
      • Selecting pie or bar chart graphics
  • Generating and viewing the reports
    • About the Symantec ESM reports
    • Generating standard reports
      • Generating a Security report
      • Generating a Domain report
      • Generating a Policy report
      • Generating a Policy run report
      • Generating a Template report
      • Generating an Executive report
    • Saving a report
    • Opening a report
    • Printing a report
    • Emailing a report
    • Deleting a report
    • Customizing a report
    • About setting trend datapoints
  • Conforming to the regulatory policies
    • Securing the network
    • About suppressing a Security report item
      • Creating a suppression
      • Editing a suppression
      • Viewing a suppression
      • Deleting a suppression
    • Correcting a Security report item
    • Reversing corrections to a Security report item
    • Updating templates
    • Updating snapshots
  • Using the Symantec ESM utilities
    • About the Symantec ESM utilities conventions
      • About the case-sensitive entries
      • About the quotation marks
      • About the brackets
    • About using the Policy tool
      • Prerequisites for using the Policy tool
      • About accessing the policy tool
      • About formatting the Policy tool
      • About the values for the Policy tool
      • About the options for the Policy tool
      • Examples of using the Policy tool
        • Displaying help
        • Exporting a policy
        • Importing a policy
        • Using the GUI components
        • Suppressing conflicts
        • Using another directory
        • Using an archive
        • Using a different TCP port
    • About using the Database Conversion tool
      • Accessing the external database
      • About the database file structure
        • About the ESMAgent table
        • About the ESMCheck table
        • About the ESMCheckNameValue table
        • About the ESMCheckValue table
        • About the ESMDomain table
        • About the ESMDomainAgent table
        • About the ESMID table
        • About the ESMJobRun table
        • About the ESMJobRunCheckResults table
        • About the ESMManager table
        • About the ESMMessage table
        • About the ESMOSVer table
        • About the ESMPolicy table
        • About the ESMPolicyCheck table
        • About the ESMPolicyCheckState table
        • About the ESMSuppression table
      • Prerequisites for using the Database Conversion tool
      • Accessing the Database Conversion tool
      • Formatting the Database Conversion tool
      • About the options for the Database Conversion tool
      • Creating a property file for the Database Conversion tool
      • About the parameters for the Database Conversion tool
      • Examples of using the Database Conversion tool
        • Displaying help
        • Converting to an ODBC database
        • Converting to an ORACLE database
        • Converting two manager databases
        • Using a property file
        • Overriding a property file
        • Limiting policy runs
        • Scheduling periodic updates
    • View security data in the drill-down mode
  • Finalizer log file
    • About the Finalizer log file
  • Format file syntax for View custom command
    • Syntax rules
    • Symantec ESM keywords
    • Format file structure
    • General directives
    • Header definition directives
    • Record definition directives
    • Footer definition directives
  • Symantec ESM summary databases
    • About the summary databases
    • Manager sumfinal database
    • Local summary database
      • Local summary database file structure
      • Agents table
      • AgentTrend table
      • DatabaseInfo table
      • DomainAgent table
      • Domains table
      • DomainTrend table
      • LatestAgentPolicyRuns table
      • Managers table
      • ManagerTrend table
      • MessageInstance table
      • Messages table
      • Modules table
      • Policies table
      • PolicyModule table
      • PolicyRuns table
      • PolicyTrend table
      • RegionManager table
      • Regions table
      • RegionTrend table
    • Managing the manager sumfinal database
    • Synchronizing and purging the local summary database
    • Querying the local summary database
  • Symantec ESM environment variables
    • Environment variables
  • Symantec ESM communications
    • About Symantec ESM communications security
    • Symantec ESM communication ports
  • Symantec ESM file structure
    • About the directory and the file descriptions
    • About /bin/esm
    • About /esm/
    • About /esm/bin/
    • About /esm/bin/OStype/
    • About /esm/config/
    • About /esm/config/manager.dat & manager.org
    • About /esm/config/server.dat & server.org
    • About /esm/config/tcp_port.dat & tcp_port.org
    • About /esm/esm
    • About /esm/esmdeinstall
    • About /esm/esmrc
    • About /esm/esmsetup
    • About esm/format/
    • About esm/man/
    • About /esm/output/
    • About /esm/platform
    • About /esm/register/
    • About /esm/system/hostname/
    • About /esm/system/hostname/db/
    • About /esm/system/hostname/reports/
    • About /esm/system/hostname/temp/
    • About /esm/template
    • About /esm/utility
    • About /esm/words