Monitoring and Integration

SNMP, Syslog, CEF, SIEM, NTP and API terms.

• What is SNMP; for what purposes is it used in TR7?GEN-08-001
• What is Syslog; how are TR7 logs forwarded with Syslog?GEN-08-002
• What is a SIEM; what does sending TR7 logs to a SIEM provide?GEN-08-003
• What is NTP; why is time synchronization important in TR7?GEN-08-004
• What is SMTP; with which settings does TR7 send e-mail notifications?GEN-08-005
• What is an audit log; where are administrator actions recorded in TR7?GEN-08-006
• What is Notification Management; how do the notification profile, Contact Groups and channels come together?GEN-08-007
• What is the difference between SNMP Trap and the SNMP agent?GEN-08-008
• What is an SNMP community?GEN-08-009
• What is the difference between SNMP v1, v2c and v3?GEN-08-010
• What is the difference between the RFC 3164 (BSD) and RFC 5424 Syslog formats?GEN-08-011
• What is CEF (Common Event Format); which TR7 logs can be sent in CEF format?GEN-08-012
• What is the difference between the JSON, CEF and Plain Text message formats for log forwarding?GEN-08-013
• What is the difference between the Apache Combined and Apache VHost log formats?GEN-08-014
• What is Prometheus; how are TR7 metrics exposed to Prometheus?GEN-08-015
• What is JSONata; where is it used in TR7?GEN-08-016
• What is a REST API; what does it offer for managing TR7 programmatically?GEN-08-017
• What is the difference between Log Forwarding and File Forwarding?GEN-08-018
• What is stratum in NTP; why is it shown in the TR7 Time Info row?GEN-08-019
• What is IPFIX; which data does TR7 send with IPFIX?GEN-08-020