Enabling and disabling the Investigation Dashboard

This topic describes how to enable and disable the Investigation Dashboard.

Before you begin

The Investigation Dashboard has following minimum hardware requirements:

64-bit architecture
24 GB RAM
4-core CPU
Investigation Dashboard functionality opens ports 8983 and 9983 on both central managers and collectors. The ports are opened when the Investigation Dashboard is enabled and closed when it is disabled. To use the Investigation Dashboard, ensure that bidirectional communication between Central managers and collectors on ports 8983 and 9983 is not blocked by any firewall.
Central managers and managed units must be able to reach each other via host name and IP address: ensure that DNS is configured to resolve IP addresses and host names in both forward and reverse lookup. If DNS cannot be used, use the support store hosts command to manually add IP-host name combinations. For more information, see support store hosts.

Restriction: The Investigation Dashboard and Data Level Security cannot be enabled concurrently.

Procedure

Log in to the Guardium® system as a user or administrator with the CLI role.
Enable the Investigation Dashboard with the GuardAPI command:
```
grdapi enable_quick_search schedule_interval=2 schedule_units=MINUTE
```
To enable the Investigation Dashboard on all managed units of an environment, use the all=true parameter:
```
grdapi enable_quick_search schedule_interval=2 schedule_units=MINUTE all=true
```
Note: This GuardAPI executes many configuration scripts and, depending on the current unit status, can take a few minutes.
By default, violations are not included in search results. To include violations, set the includeViolations parameter to true:
```
grdapi enable_quick_search schedule_interval=2 schedule_units=MINUTE includeViolations=true
```
To enable outlier detection, see Outliers detection.

Additional parameters may be specified, such as the search index update interval. For more information, see Investigation Dashboard APIs.
Use the following GuardAPI command to disable the Investigation Dashboard function at any time:
```
grdapi disable_quick_search
```

Results

After you have enabled the Investigation Dashboard, see Accessing the investigation dashboard to learn more and begin using the investigation dashboard.

Attention: Indexed search data is retained for 3 days. Use the purge object Guardium CLI command to change the retention period. For example, the following command changes the retention period to 5 days: store purge object age 36 5. Note that 36 is the default object identification number associated with the search index. For additional information, see Configuration and Control CLI Commands reference information.