Overview

A configuration is a group of related appliance or software settings and their associated values, which applies to one or more node types. A configuration created for a node can be pushed to nodes of the same type managed by ArcSight Management Center, assuring uniformity across a group of nodes.

There are two types of configuration: subscriber and initial.

Configuration management tasks include:

For example, a typical workflow for a subscriber configuration might work as follows: you can create a suitable DNS configuration for an appliance, specifying primary DNS server, secondary DNS server, and search domains for the appliance. (See System Admin Configuration Types.) You can then push your DNS configuration to subscribing appliances, and so ensure that DNS settings for all subscribed nodes are configured identically with a single action.

If you later updated the configuration to use a new primary DNS server, you could push the new configuration to all subscribers, and all of them would be updated for the new DNS server with one action.

At any time, you could verify any managed node’s compliance with the configuration to determine if its settings were assigned the desired values.