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# ArcSight Management Center 3.2 Overview

ArcSight Management Center (ArcMC) is a centralized management tool that simplifies security policy configuration, deployment maintenance, and monitoring in an efficient and cost-effective manner.

ArcMC offers these key capabilities:

• Management and Monitoring: deliver the single management interface to administrate and monitor ArcSight managed nodes, such as Connector Appliances, Loggers, Connectors, other ArcMCs, and Transformation Hub.

• SmartConnector Hosting: for the hardware appliance, as a platform to host and execute SmartConnectors

ArcMC includes these benefits:

- Rapid implementation of new and updated security policies.
- Increased level of accuracy and reduction of errors in configuration of managed nodes.
- Reduction in operational expenses.

Caution: Customers may not alter any code related to the ArcMC product without direction from ArcSight support, and customization of the code is not supported by ArcSight.