Before you configure an ArcSight
data source in the platform, configure the user authentication and self-signed certificate
generation.
About this task
The default administrator of the Logger
instance must create the user and assign them the access permissions to the search API. The user
must have read access for the search API.
Procedure
-
Create a user and set access permission in the ArcSight Logger Console.
- Log in to the ArcSight Logger
console.
- Click System Admin.
- From the User/Groups menu, click User
Management.
The Manage Users page
opens.
- Add the new user and provide credentials and contact information.
- From the Assign to Groups section, select Default
Logger Search Group for Logger Search.
The other groups are by default set to
Unassigned
. A user must be a member of at least one user group to use Logger. For new users, the default selection is set
to Unassigned
.
- Click Save and Close.
- Generate a self-signed certificate.
- Log in to the ArcSight Logger
console.
- Click System Admin.
- From the Security section, click SSL Server
Certificate.
The Generate Certificate/Certificate Signing
Request opens.
- Click the Generate Certificate tab.
- Specify new values in the Enter Certificate Settings
field.
- Click Generate Certificate.
- Confirm certificate generation by clicking OK.
- View the PEM-encoded self-signed certificate by clicking View
Certificate.