The Visualizer provides a convenient way to view your Symantec Security Information Manager environment, including the computers that are assigned
of elements such as the Information Manager server and agents.
See“About using the Visualizer”on page 194.
See“Viewing and modifying element properties”on page 196.
About using the Visualizer
The Visualizer provides a graphical view of your Information Manager environment. When you click the Visualizer tab on the System view, you see a set of icons. The icons represent such elements as correlation servers, collection servers, agents, and directories. The Icons tab in the Legend pane illustrates and defines each type of icon that can appear in the diagram.
See“About the Visualizer”on page 193.
Colored lines join elements to indicate the nature of their interactions. For example, a green line appears between an Information Manager server and its event archive.
A blue line indicates that event forwarding is configured between a collection server and the correlation server. The arrow shows the direction in which the event data flows. To see an explanation of each color, click the Edges tab in the Legend pane.
You can place the icons where you want them by dragging them with the mouse.
The associated text moves with the icon. You can also move the text to a different position relative to its icon. Click and hold the mouse over the text, and then move the mouse. Empty text boxes appear on each side of the icon. Drag the text into one of the boxes and release the mouse.
The toolbar includes tools to help you examine the graphic.
In the toolbar, the colored dots that appear next to some elements indicate the activity level of these elements. Some dots reflect the volume of EPS, and other dots reflect the percentage of appliance CPU in use. The meaning of each color is as follows:
■ Green = less than or equal to 2.5 K
■ Yellow = 2.5 K to 5 K
■ Red = greater than 5 K EPS
■ Green = less than 60%
■ Yellow = 60% to 80%
■ Red = greater than 80%
CPU usage
Note:The EPS display on the Visualizer tab depends on the value of the Agent Queue Statistics Report Interval setting under System > Product Configuration
> SSIM Agent and Manager > Agent Configurations > Logging. By default, this value is set to 300 seconds and the EPS is updated after that interval only. You can configure it to a lower interval. However, setting a lower value may result in a lower performance by the agent. You must update (push) the configuration to the agent for the change to take effect.
Table 9-2describes the tools in the toolbar.
Table 9-2 Visualizer tools Purpose Tool
This option lets you view your network topology using the following layouts:
This option lets you update the display after you make configuration changes. For example, after you add a collector, click Refresh to re-draw the diagram and show a new icon for the added collector.
Refresh
This option lets you expand the diagram view.
Zoom in
This option lets you minimize the diagram view.
Zoom out
This option lets you enlarge the view of a selected portion in the diagram. Select a portion of the diagram by clicking the mouse and dragging a box around the required area. Then click the Zoom Selected icon to enlarge the area that you selected.
Zoom selected
This option returns the diagram to its original size, to fit the entire diagram in the right pane of the System view.
Fit to window
This option lets you save the information in the diagram as an XML file. Symantec Technical Support may request this file to assist in troubleshooting.
Save as
This option lets you export the Visualizer image as a .gif or .jpg file.
You can also adjust the image width and height, and define the clip area as a view or a graph.
Export Image
This option lets you print the diagram. On the Print Options dialog box, you can select the height (Poster Rows) and width (Poster Columns) if you print a very large diagram. The default setting (one poster row and one poster column) prints the entire diagram on a single page.
This option displays a table with one row for each element that is involved in processing events. The table dynamically displays such information as EPS and the total number of events that the element has processed since it was last started. The details that are displayed in the table view can be saved into CSV format.
A green check mark means that the element is running; a red X means that the element is not responding.
Table view
This option lets you magnify any selected portion of the diagram.
Use Magnifier
Viewing and modifying element properties
You can view the properties of many of the elements in the Visualizer diagram.
You can also modify some of these properties.
See“About using the Visualizer”on page 194.
The same properties are also accessible through other tabs on the System view.
You use these tabs to add and delete elements, such as collectors. After you add an element, you distribute it; the element appears in the Visualizer.
Table 9-3explains how to access each of the element categories on other System view tabs.
Table 9-3 Accessing element properties on System view tabs How to access
Category
This category includes appliances, agents, and collectors.
■ Select Administration > Organizational Units.
■ Select an organizational unit.
■ In the list in the right pane, double-click the name of a computer.
A dialog box displays the computer's properties.
About managing organizational units.
Computers
Table 9-3 Accessing element properties on System view tabs (continued) How to access
Category
■ Select Administration > Directories.
■ In the list in the right pane, double-click the name of a directory.
A dialog box displays the directory's properties.
Directories
This category includes products such as collectors and firewalls.
■ Select Product Configurations.
■ In the left pane, click the name of a product.
The right pane displays the product's properties.
Products
To view and modify element properties
1 On the System view of the Information Manager console, click the Visualizer tab.
2 Right-click on an icon in the diagram, and then click Properties.
A dialog box displays a set of tabs that let you access the element's properties.
The displayed properties depend on the type of element that you selected.
For example, a collection appliance has different properties than an agent.
3 View and modify any of the available properties in the dialog box, using the tabs to navigate through the properties.
4 When you finish viewing and modifying properties, click OK.