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Getting to know DSM Editor

We have discussed in detail event data and the ingestion of event data in QRadar and now understand that IBM provides DSMs out of the box for QRadar to parse incoming event data. What happens when IBM does not have a DSM for a data source that you want to ingest? What would be the state of the ingested event data? Will it be partially parsed? To answer these queries, IBM has introduced a tool called DSM Editor. DSM Editor is built into Qradar; no special package is required for its installation.

In earlier versions of Qradar, there was a feature called Universal Log Source, where we had to define the parsing logic for incoming data. Parsers had to be written. As it was a manual process, it was not very efficient. But now with the DSM Editor, most of the processing is automatic.

Figure 5.3 – DSM Editor – unparsed events

In the preceding figure, we can see a few events that have a Low Level Category value of Unknown...

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Ashish has a total experience of more than 15 years working for IBM on various different platforms. He is currently working as tech evangelist for IBM Security products. He has been instrumental in developing more than 10 IBM certification exams including IBM products like QRadar, Cloud Pak for Security, IBM SiteProtector, IBM XGS, etc. He has worked with multiple customers on deploying and then upgrading IBM security products. He has contributed regularly by writing blogs and giving talks on security products. He has published many redpapers on the integration of security products with IBM Storage solutions like IBM Spectrum scale. These redpapers are now full-fledged solutions that are being sold. He has also cleared two Mandarin language exams and is HSK2 qualified.
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