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Third Party Monitoring feature was originally published in StoneGate 5.0 version and it got already many new configuration options in StoneGate 5.1. Surprise, surprise we have continued improving the Third Party Log Event management features even further in StoneGate 5.2.

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written by Tero Jantunen - 1,630 views \\ tags: 3rd party devices, 5.2, Feature Previews, Logging Profiles. Syslog, Monitoring, SMC, SNMP traps, Third-Party Monitoring

StoneGate Management Center 5.1 contains plenty of new enhancements related to Third Party event management feature that was originally introduced in StoneGate 5.0.

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written by Tero Jantunen - 1,640 views \\ tags: 3rd party devices, 5.1, CLF, Features, Log Reception, MIB, Monitoring, SMC, Status surveillance, WELF

This article refers to previous post in which I illustrated how to create a logging profile to allow a 3rd party device syslog stream to be received by StoneGate Log Server.

I’ll deepen this information in this post by showing how to go from log collection to centralized log processing and reporting, using an Apache Web Server as log sending device. The ultimate goal is to use some parsed data from Web Server to create a basic report using StoneGate Reporting functionality included in StoneGate Management Center.

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written by RoarinPenguin - 2,985 views \\ tags: 3rd party devices, logs, profile

One of the coolest new features of StoneGate Management Center 5.0 is the possibility of defining log profiles to receive syslog streams from 3rd party devices.

The great benefit of this functionality is to allow such log streams to participate in centralized log processing allowed by StoneGate Management Center as part of reports, alert escalation, geolocation, etc.

This post details how to create specific log profile to match the stream generated by a given IP device.

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written by RoarinPenguin - 2,226 views \\ tags: 3rd party devices, log, profile

In addition to monitoring the status of third party devices you can also view the logs that are sent by those devices.

You just need to create a “Logging Profile” element that defines how the syslog that is sent by the third party device is parsed to fit the StoneGate Management Center’s log browser columns. Then you assign the logging profile and the responsible Log Server to your host and router elements just like you did with the Probing profiles.

Stonesoft will provide a couple of example logging profiles. We will also provide an integrated validation tool that helps you to create the custom logging profiles for your own third party devices.

Besides the status monitoring and log browsing of third party devices, StoneGate Management Center 5.0 allows you to create some simple log statistics based on the log data that is sent by those devices. Maybe you don’t need to use that many user interfaces for your daily administration tasks anymore…

written by Tero Jantunen - 2,155 views \\ tags: 3rd party devices, 5.0, Features, SMC, stonegate

StoneGate Management Center 5.0 allows you to monitor the status of your third party devices. From now on you can monitor in the StoneGate Management Center whether your critical servers, routers and switches are alive.

How do you do that?

• You just create a “Probing Profile” in which you select the probing method (Ping or SNMP) and the related settings
• You assign the probing profile and the responsible log server in the host’s or router’s properties in the new “Third Party Management” tab

After these two steps, the element automatically appears to the System Status view and you see the status of the device also in other views. It’s as simple as that!

written by Tero Jantunen - 1,654 views \\ tags: 3rd party devices, 5.0, Features, SMC, stonegate