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Policy Change Event Variables

Policy change events include changes to rules, protection levels, content updates, and verdicts. The ESM Console lists these events under the following Logging Events categories:
  • Policies - General
  • Policies - Rules
  • Policies - Hash Control
The following table displays the most commonly specified variables in policy change events.
Name
Meaning
shost
Machine name of the ESM Console server
suser
User who is logged in to the ESM Console
fileHash
Hash value of an executable file
msg
Free text description
For example, consider the output of a Hash Added event in CEF format:
Sep 28 2016 17:34:56 172.16.183.173 CEF:0|Palo
Alto Networks|Traps ESM|3.4.1.16709|New Hash Added|Policy|6|rt=Sep
28 2016 17:34:56 shost=ESM suser= fileHash=c97f276b4c70682c8f8d39b91e30f938bc6e86a42cd6b71e3ad08092dba528e9 cs5Label=NewVerdict
cs5=Benign msg=New hash added
Notice that this event uses several common variables, namely: shost, suser, fileHash, and msg.