Module Summary

• Event Management is an important component of network

administration that deals with monitoring network activities.
• Information about the various hardware and software events generated
by host systems can be recorded in the Event Log.
• The logged data can be viewed by using the Event Log and Event
Monitor pages in CSA MC.
• The Event Monitor display is automatically refreshed at regular intervals
to show information about the most recently logged events.
• The Event Management Wizard is used to track, report, and analyze the
activities that are recorded in the Event Log.
• Alerts are configured and sent to the network administrator based on
the severity level of the logged event.
• Reports can be broadly classified into Events by Severity, Events by
Group, Group Detail, Host Detail, and Policy Detail.
• There are two types of report viewers—ActiveX and HTML Frame.

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