What is the Report Center?

In the Report Center, you can run Reports about:

The Events saved in your Event1. Either a log message that a Manager has standardized (i.e. normalized) for use by TLC (a.k.a. Normalized Messages), or an event or vulnerability imported from a scanner. 2. An 'event message' collected from a Log Source.-Management Databases, and

The Event Tickets and user log-on records in your System DatabaseInstalled on your Primary Manager, the System Database stores a record of all user logins and logouts, as well as all TLC objects defined in the TLC Console1. Tripwire Log Center Console is the software for the TLC graphic user interface (GUI), or 2. The Tripwire Log Center GUI. Through the TLC Console, you can configure TLC, oversee your TLC environment, and manage log and event data.; for example, Assets, NormalizationThe process of standardizing log messages for use by TLC. Standardized messages are known as Normalized Messages. Rules, and Event Tickets.

The Report Center provides a wide variety of Tripwire-defined Reports. As needed, you can also create custom Reports of your own by creating Report Tasks in the TaskCreated and configured in the Task Manager, a Task queries Events, Hosts, or Scanner Events in an Event-Management Database to perform an operation. Types of Tasks include Layout-Panel, Administrative, and Search Tasks. Manager (see Running a Report). When you save a new Report TaskA type of Search TaskA type of Task that performs a query of data in an Event-Management Database. Types of Search Tasks include List, Graph, and Report Tasks. that queries an Event-Management Database and compiles the results in a PDF report file. in the Task Manager, TLC adds it to the Report Center.

When you run a Report, TLC presents the output in PDF format (see Figure 38). The output may consist of bar graphs, line charts, pie charts, tables, and/or maps of IP Tags (see Working with IP Tags). You can then:

Change the 'Page Setup' settings for the output.

Add a watermark or change the background color.

Save the output in a variety of formats (including PDF, HTML, CSV, and XLS).

Email the output to interested parties.

For more information, see Working with Report Output.

Figure 38.  An example of Report output in the Report Center