Connect to Guardium Data Protection with the legacy communication protocol

Stream data from Guardium Data Protection collectors by connecting a Guardium Data Protection central manager to Guardium Data Security Center.

Before you begin

You might need to adjust your Guardium central manager settings to minimize delays in the data streaming to Guardium Data Security Center. For more information, see Adjusting Guardium central manager and OpenShift Container Platform settings for data mart streaming.

When prompted to choose the GDP communication protocol, ensure that you have selected Legacy GI to GDP API communication protocol.

Procedure

  1. Read the About information that provides overview for connecting to a Guardium Data Protection system. Click Next to begin.
  2. Type in the connection details.
    • Name: Enter a unique name for the connection (with a minimum of 4 characters). This name distinguishes this connection from all other Guardium Data Security Center connections.
    • Full hostname: Enter the full hostname of the Guardium central manager.
      Note: IP addresses are not supported for Full hostname.
    • Port: Enter the Guardium central manager port.
  3. Click Save.
  4. After the connection is added, the Guardium central managers page opens showing all of the configured Guardium central managers.
    Note: A Guardium central manager can manage collectors that are running different versions of Guardium. Guardium Data Security Center supports managed collectors from these data sources.

What to do next

After successful integration, the Guardium Data Protection system is displayed in Guardium Data Security Center on the Integrations page. You can complete the following actions:

  • You can set up streaming for Guardium Data Protection aggregators and collectors. For more information, see Export data from Guardium Data Protection systems.
  • You can access the managed units for the central manager by clicking the Central manager name link in the table. After you access the managed units, you can enable them if they are disabled.
  • To delete a central manager, click its checkbox and then click Delete in the banner that opens. You can select multiple central managers to delete.
  • To edit a central manager, select Edit on the right side of the table menu.
  • To disable all managed units of a central manager without deleting it completely, select Disable from the right side of the table menu. To enable the managed units, click the Central manager name link in the table and then enable its managed units.
  • To refresh the list of central managers, click Refresh.
  • You can filter the list of central managers by entering match criteria in the Filter table field.
Note: Guardium Data Security Center pulls only SQL that is audited by using the Log full details rule action. To gain traffic visibility, you must change your policy to include this action (see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/guardium/latest?topic=actions-log-full-details). You can now import historic data by using Full SQL from Guardium Data Protection to Guardium Data Security Center.