Management Appliance - User Tasks

From a Management Station, you can perform the following user tasks involving managed appliances:

  • View the status of all managed appliances in the System Status dashboard
  • For the classic Index search and Regular Expression search:
    • Search log data from a single managed appliance or all managed appliances
    • Select a Global group of log sources on which to perform the search
  • Monitor alerts in Alert Viewer for any managed appliance or aggregated for all appliances in a single list
  • For report generation:
    • Use the log data from a single managed appliance or all managed appliances
    • Aggregate reports run against all appliances into a single large report or generate them at once in separate reports for each appliance
    • Select a Global group of log sources on which to generate the report
  • Run a query on Remote Appliances to which the user has appropriate access permissions.
  • Create an aggregation rule that is automatically distributed to Remote Appliances to which the user has appropriate access permissions.
  • Run distributed Advanced Search

For more information about these user tasks, see the User Guide.

Ports

You must ensure that the relevant ports are open for the Management Station and the Remote Appliances to communicate with each other through firewalls.

Task Port numbers
Distributed Regex search 5514
Distributed Advanced Search 9683, 9685
Remote Appliance communication via Management Station 9443
Advanced Search 9620
Distributed aggregation 9685, 9626

For detailed information about ports, see LogLogic LMI Ports.