Getting started with the user interface

Learn the basics of the Guardium user interface, including logging in for the first time, banner and navigation menus, and the user interface and data search.

Navigation

When you first log in to the Guardium user interface, there are two main menus - the banner and the navigation menu.

You can expand and collapse the navigation menu by clicking the chevron icon chevron icon, or you can hide the navigation menu completely by clicking the show / hide icon show / hide icon.

The initial layout of your screen is determined by the license that is applied, the access allowed based on roles, the machine type, and a visibility factor. Examples of roles are user, admin, access manager, and CLI. Roles are assigned to users and applications to grant users specific access privileges.

Banner Menu

The banner contains the following items:
Table 1. Banner menu
Item   Description
System time clock   The universal time on your Guardium system.
To-Do List To-Do List icon Contains the Audit Process To-Do List, which can be filtered by user, and the Processes With No Pending Results.
Help   Open the product help by clicking Help > Guardium Help.

Get information about your Guardium system, such as the version number, by clicking Help > About Guardium.

For help content specific to a screen or feature you're working with, click help icon that is embedded in each page.

Note: However you access the Help, when you open same Information Center, where you can search and access all help content.
User interface / data / file   Select Data or File and click search to open the Investigation Dashboard.
Select User Interface to search the UI. For example, if you want to find the Policy Builder, type policy builder in the User Interface Search. Click any of the results to go to that part of the user interface.
Account type   Indicates the account type that you logged in with. Edit your account details, such as your password or name, customize UI layout, and sign out of Guardium securely.
Machine type   Indicates what type of Guardium system you are on, such as stand-alone, managed unit, central manager, or aggregator.

The banner menu also contains important startup messages such as Low RAM memory, Quick Search memory, and CPU 4-cores minimum requirement, Certificate expiration, Central Management failure, SSLv3 enabled or disabled, and No License.

Note: Guardium recommends that SSLv3 be disabled. However, in dealing with older Guardium versions that do not have the latest release installed, if SSLv3 is disabled, the Central Management functionality is impaired between the Central Manager and the managed units.

Navigation Menu

Each icon in the navigation menu represents one phase of the Guardium security lifecycle, click any icon to expand it and see the components within the phase. The lifecycle-centric navigation menu is one way to navigate the user interface and is consistent across roles. Menu items can be customized and do or don't appear based on your role. 

Phase   Description
Setup setup icon Configure your network settings, check the status of your services, and setup datasource definitions, groups, aliases, and alerts.
Manage manage icon Manage your environment's overall health, S-TAPs, data, modules, maintenance, and reports.
Discover discover icon Automatically discover new databases that are introduced to your environment, and find and classify sensitive data.
Harden harden icon Assess your environment's current weaknesses with Vulnerability Assessment and monitor changes that are made to your environment with Configuration Auditing System (CAS).
Investigate investigate icon Monitor database activities and investigate suspicious activity in any part of your environment.
Protect protect icon Protect your environment with data security policies that block suspicious activity and prevent unauthorized access to data. For more information about policies, see Policies.
Comply comply icon Reach compliance initiatives with audit processes and granular reporting.
Reports reports icon Create your own report or use one of many predefined reports to report on any part of your environment. For more information about reports, see Reports.
My Dashboards my dashboards icon Create your own dashboards to easily review reports that are of primary interest to you. For more information about dashboards, see Creating dashboards and adding reports.

Commonly Found Icons

Many of the finder and builder applications in Guardium share this set of icons.

Icon Description
New new icon Create an item, such as a group or datasource definition.
Modify modify icon Modify an item.
Note: When you modify items, the best practice is to clone the item, and then modify the clone.
Clone clone icon Clone an item to create a copy of the item.
Delete delete icon Delete an item.