To be able to stream data to IBM Security Guardium® Insights for
analysis, you first need to connect to your data sources.
Before you begin
Ensure that Guardium
Insights
supports the data source environment that you will connect to.
If you are connecting to data sources for the first time, Guardium
Insights guides you through your first connections as part of
the getting started experience. To add more data sources (or work with data sources that are already defined),
click Connections in the Settings
menu ().
Procedure
- The Connections page lists all of the connections that you have
created.
- You can filter this view by opening the Filter panel (select
the filter criteria and then click Apply filters).
- To customize the columns in the table, click the Customize
columns button. Then, in the Customize columns dialog box, select
all columns that you want to display in the table - and drag and drop the columns to reorder them.
Click Done when you are finished.
- If you have filtered the table or customized its columns, you can save these settings by
creating a Preset view. When you click a preset view, the table changes to
reflect the filter and columns. Guardium
Insights provides two
default preset views: All connections and All unhealthy
connections.
To create a new preset view, filter the list of connections and
organize the columns as desired, and then click
New preset view. Give the
preset card a unique name and a description, if desired. You can also set the preset view to
default.
Each preset view card has a menu with actions that allow you to rename the card, reorder
the cards, and remove the card. Non-default cards also include an action to make the card
default.
If you are viewing a preset view and you change the table filter or modify its
columns, the preset card will prompt you to save the modifications that you have made (click
Modify).
- To create a new connection, click Add connection to open the
Connect new data source page. This page lists all of the currently-supported
data sources.
- Select the data source to connect to. This opens
a panel that aids you in initiating the connection:
- Select data source environment:
Select the environment that hosts your data source.
- Select connection method: Select the type of connection that
you want to create.
- Other options: If your data source requires additional options, select them
here.
- The remainder of the panel provides Additional
information about the connection type that you are creating.
- After reading the Additional information, you have one of these
options:
What to do next
After you add a data source, it is scanned
almost immediately. You can use these actions to work with connections:
- To delete a connection, select its checkbox, and click
Remove in the banner that opens. You can select multiple connections and
remove them with this button.
- To edit a connection, select its Connection name
link in the table. This opens a panel that allows you to Enable or
Disable the connection. In addition, you can see the status of the connection
and edit its configurations.
- To export a CSV list of the connections in the table, click
Export CSV. This will export a list of only the connections that are
currently in the table - it will not include any that have been filtered out.
- To refresh the list of connections, click
Refresh.