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Cortex XSIAM Documentation

Product
Cortex XSIAM
Creation date
2024-03-06
Last date published
2024-10-08
Category
Administrator Guide
Abstract

Manage engines and load balancing groups.

You can manage your engines and load-balancing groups by going to SettingsConfigurationsEngines.

You can view engine names, hosts, status, connection, and other engine information.

Note

You can do the following:

Option

Description

Load-Balancing Group

It is useful to create separate load-balancing groups. For example:

  • Use separate load-balancing groups for different integrations and instances. Create Load-Balancing groups for certain tasks, which can help segregate the infrastructure of critical integrations.

  • Managed Security Service Providers may want to split internal engines and SaaS product engines.

  • If you have multiple AWS accounts that are not connected and do not want a single point of failure for AWS integrations that use STS.

You can do the following:

  • Add/remove engines to a load-balancing group

    You can only add the engine to the load-balancing group after you have connected the engine.

    If you want to remove the last engine from a specific load-balancing group, if one or more integration instances use that engine, you will get an error. Before moving the engine, you need to assign Run on to a different engine or no engine for each of the integration instance settings.

  • Create load-balancing groups

    When selecting Load-Balancing GroupAdd to new group, you can create multiple load-balancing groups and decide which engines are part of each group.

    Users can move an engine from one group to another. A group will be deleted when the last engine is removed from it.

    Each engine can only belong to one group.

Upgrade Engine

Relevant for Shell installation only. If you didn't install an engine using the Shell installation you will need to remove the engine and do a fresh installation. For more information, see Upgrade an engine.

Get Logs

Logs are located in /var/log/demisto. For multiple engines, logs are located in /var/log/demisto/<name of the engine>. For example, var/log/demisto.d1_e1.

Edit Configuration

Relevant for Shell installation only. Enables you to edit the d1.conf file without having to access the file on your remote machine. For more information, see Configure engines.

Download Configuration

Download the d1.conf file to view the attribute values. Useful when migrating from Cortex XSOAR 6 to Cortex XSOAR 8.

Delete Engine

Deletes an engine from Cortex XSIAM. To remove the engine from your remote machine, see Remove an engine.