Prelude-Manager is brought to you by CS GROUP (http://www.csgroup.eu).


Prelude-Manager Overview
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Prelude-Manager server is the Prelude events collector.

Prelude-Manager is a high availability server that accepts secured connections from
distributed sensors or other managers and saves received events to a media specified
by the user (database, logfile, mail, etc).

The server is a high availability server capable of handling large number of connections,
and processing large amounts of events. It uses a per client scheduling queues in order to
process events by severity fairly accross clients.


REQUIREMENTS
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You need to install libprelude and libpreludedb on your system before compiling Prelude-Manager.

For Redhat based systems (CentOS, Fedora, etc.)
       XML Plugin support   :  libxml2-devel
       TCP wrapper support  :  tcp_wrappers-devel
       Geolocation support  :  libmaxminddb-devel
       SNMP                 :  net-snmp-devel

For Debian systems
       XML Plugin support   :  libxml2-dev
       TCP wrapper support  :  libwrap0-dev
       Geolocation support  :  libmaxminddb-dev
       SNMP                 :  libsnmp-dev

IRC
===

If there's something you just can't find out elsewhere, you want to
give feedback directly to the authors or you're just bored, visit
#prelude on irc.freenode.net


Get Support
===========


Prelude-user forums can be accessed at:
        https://www.prelude-siem.org/projects/prelude/boards

Commercial Support is available through the CS GROUP - France company:
        https://www.prelude-siem.com, contact.prelude@csgroup.eu



Help development
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1. SUBMITTING PATCHES

The Prelude source is constantly changing. If you want to submit a patch,
please do so from the most recent GIT source tree, subscribe to the
prelude-devel forum and post your patch with a description of functionality.
You can also attach patches to bugs on

        https://www.prelude-siem.org


2. BUGS

If you find any bugs, please report them to:

        https://www.prelude-siem.org

Please make sure that what you're reporting is actually a BUG and not
a problem on your side.


3. SUGGESTIONS

Subscribe to prelude-devel and give us your suggestions.
