Security Compliance

SEM Log Forwarding does not include FIM data

This article explains why Log Forwarding in SEM does not include File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) events.

First published date

4/5/2019 9:29 PM

Last published date

4/5/2019 9:29 PM

Overview

This article applies to Security Event Manager (formerly Log & Event Manager).

The alert data sent by Log Forwarding in SEM does not include FIM events.

Product section

Security Event Manager

Resolution

Log Forwarding on the SEM is configured on a per-connector basis by changing the Output type on the connector from Alert to Alert, nDepth.

In the HTML5 SEM Events Console, select Raw or Raw + Normalized under Output.

Because of how the FIM connector is set up, you cannot change its output type to Alert, nDepth (or Raw + Normalized). As a result, it is excluded from being used with Log Forwarding.

See Enable Log Forwarding for details about setting up Log Forwarding.

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