Installing the Guardium Insights policy to Guardium Central Manager

After enabling the streaming of data to IBM® Guardium® Insights, you must first connect to your data sources.

Before you begin

Make sure that Guardium Insights supports your data source. For more information, see Version 3.4.x and later Data source platform streaming support or Version 3.3.xData source platform streaming support.

If you are connecting to data sources for the first time, Guardium Insights guides you through your first connections as part of the getting started experience. To add more data sources (or work with data sources that are already defined), click Connections in the main menu. Open this menu by clicking the main menu icon ()

Note that you may need to adjust your Guardium Central Manager settings to allow for streaming to Guardium Insights. See Adjusting Guardium central manager and OpenShift Container Platform settings for data mart streaming for more information.

Procedure

Open the Guardium source connection settings:
1. If you are adding a connection through the Guardium Insights getting started experience, click the Guardium panel in the Welcome page.
2. If you are adding a connection after accessing the Guardium Insights Dashboards page, ensure that the Guardium tab is selected and click Connect Guardium Source.
Required: Name: Enter a name for the connection. This name is used to distinguish this connection from other connections in Guardium Insights.
Required: Full hostname: Enter the full hostname of the Guardium central manager that you will connect to.

Note: IP addresses are not supported when connecting to Guardium central manager.
Click Save to add the connection.
After adding the connection, its streaming page opens, allowing you to see all of the managed units (or collectors) that have been configured for streaming. To enable the streaming of all managed units to Guardium Insights, click Enable streaming to begin data analysis.

Note: Guardium central manager can be a mixed environment with managed units from different versions of Guardium. Guardium Insights supports managed units from Version 3.4.x and laterthese data sources or Version 3.3.xthese data sources. If your central manager includes managed units that are not supported by Guardium Insights, they will display in the list of managed units in Guardium Insights, however, these managed units will not be included in analysis.