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ArcSight Overview

ArcSight Enterprise Security Management (ESM) is a comprehensive software solution
that combines traditional security event monitoring with network intelligence, context
correlation, anomaly detection, historical analysis tools, and automated remediation. ESM
is a multi-level solution that provides tools for network security analysts, system
administrators, and business users.

What’s New in ESM v5.2

Reporting
Reporting has been enhanced to create a report once, then distribute it to multiple
recipients, including to non-ESM users with valid email addresses. You can additionally set
the option so that empty reports are not sent.

Correlation
The following enhancements to rules and active lists are introduced:
You can define lightweight rules that skip multiple event aliases and aggregation, limit
rule actions, and skip audit event logging for significant performance gains.
If your active lists contain numeric fields, you can further specify numeric subtypes of
SUM, MIN, and MAX that will accumulate your values. With enhanced variable
functions for active lists, you can now store list data in time segments.
Standard Content
Navigation through the administration tasks in ArcSight Administration Foundation is
enhanced by the addition of use cases. The resource monitoring content is also enhanced
to better monitor query-based resources, such as reports, trends, and query viewers.

Dashboards
Dashboards are enhanced to support drilldowns from data monitors into dashboards,
reports, and query viewers.

Asset Model
The Asset Model Import Connector now supports the ability to create and manage the
Asset Model within ESM. The Asset Model Import Connector monitors changes in an asset
model CSV file, enabling you to manage and maintain your asset model more easily.

ArcSight Send Log Utility
ArcSight Tech Support may request log files and other diagnostic information to
troubleshoot problems. The Send Log utility automatically locates the log files,
compresses them, and saves them.
Using the Send Log utility, you can:
Gather logs and diagnostic information for all components of the ESM system from the
Console, Manager, or ArcSight Web.
Gather diagnostic information such as session wait times, thread dumps, and storage
alert logs about your system. If you email the log to ArcSight Tech Support, it can help
them analyze performance issues on your ESM components.
Send Log can be run as a wizard, directly from the Console interface, or from the

command-line interface of each component.