can Cisco Mars do the reporting for all devices (checkpint, ISS etc)

navneet · ‎03-14-2008

Is this is true that cisco mars can do the reporting for all the devices(like checkpoint, juniper, sonicwall, and IBM-ISS ) devices.

Requesting plz reply ASAP

mhellman · ‎03-14-2008

no, it's not true. the following MARS lists what mars has direct support for:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/security_management/cs-mars/4.3/compatibility/local_controller/dtlc43x.html

Anything else would require creating a custom parser, which is great functionality to have in a pinch but is a major pita to maintain. That's one of the biggest reasons to buy a SIM in the first place, so you don't have to manage parsing yourself.