Creating Channel objects

Trust Protection Platform is designed so you can create multiple channel objects for any given channel driver. This means you can create different channel configurations for different functions or events. For instance, you can configure the Venafi Log server to use one MS SQL Channel object as the Default SQL Channel and another MS SQL Channel as a specialized log store for specific types of events.

You can also define multiple SMTP Channel objects to send notifications to different recipients such as the contact for each application that consumes a given certificate, the certificate contact, the system administrator, and a certificate approver. Every SMTP channel object supports both plain text and HTML messages.

NOTE  To view examples of channel object configurations, review the default channel objects that are provided in the Channels folder. You can use the default channels or reference their configurations as a guide to help you create your own channel objects. For a listing of the default channel objects, see SMTP channel templates.

To create a channel object

  1. From the Platform menu bar, click Policy Tree.

  2. Select the Logging tree in the Tree drop-down menu.

    You must have the Create permission to the Channels folder in the Logging tree.

  3. In the Logging tree, select the Channels folder.

  4. Click Add, and then select Channel object:

    • Adaptable: Log events to a custom channel. For more information, see Using Venafi's Adaptable Log Channel.
    • File: Log untranslated or translated events to a human-readable log file. For more information, see File channel.
    • Filter: Log events based on event type or severity to reduce the number of events logged to a database. For more information, see Filter channel.
    • MSSQL:  Log events to a Microsoft SQL Server database. For more information, see Default SQL channel.
    • SMTP Forward logged events to specified a email distribution. For more information, see SMTP channel.
    • SNMP: Forward logged events to an Simple Network Management (SNMP) system. For more information, see SNMP channel.
    • Adaptable Perform a custom action in response to events. For more information, see Adaptable Log channel .

    • Syslog: Forward logged events to a syslog server. For more information, see About syslog channels.

      List of Channel objects

  5. Complete the Channel object configuration, and then click Apply.