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CEF Alert Logs

CEF Key
Description
Value 
Header (timestamp)
Local time in the format: "Mmm dd hh:mm:ss"
Example: Dec 5 05:26:45
Header (host)
Hostname without the domain information
Example: internalAP1
Header (logVer)
CEF format version
CEF: 0
Header (vendor)
Appliance vendor
Trend Micro
Header (pname)
Appliance product
Deep Discovery Email Inspector
Header (pver)
Appliance version
Example: 5.1.0.1110
Header (eventid)
Signature ID
300105
Header (eventName)
Description
ALERT_EVENT
Header (severity)
Alert severity
  • 2: Informational
  • 6: Important
  • 8: Critical
cs1
Alert name
Example: Security: Suspicious Messages Identified
cs1Label
Alert name
ruleName
cs2
Description
Example: 1 or more messages detected with threats
cs2Label
Description
ruleCriteria
cs3
Triggered value
Example: 35
cs3Label
Triggered value
eventTriggeredValue
cs4
Notification content
Example:
The following 
email messages contain 
threats:

Risk: Medium (Malware) 
Action:  Quarantined
Message ID: <201506190
32243.5923E650365@loca
lhost.ddei-164>
Recipients: fake@test.
com;test@test.com
Sender: test@fake.test
Subject: high_4_file_
507ECC33FA60979F6B97D
84DA47972096185C263
Attachment: 4_file_50
7ECC33FA60979F6B97D84D
A47972096185C263 (MIME
 Base64)
Detected: 2015-05-25 
11:11:00
                    
Alert time: 2015-05-25 
11:11:27 +0800 
Note
Note
The maximum length is 1023 characters.
cs4Label
Notification content
ruleContent
deviceExternalId
Appliance GUID
Example: 6B593E17AFB7-40FBBB28-A4CE-0462-A536
dvc
Appliance IP address
Example: 10.1.144.199
dvchost
Appliance host name
Example: localhost
dvcmac
Appliance MAC address
Example: 00:0C:29:6E:CB:F9
externalId
The logid in the alert database
Example: 1648
rt
Log generation time
Example: Mar 09 2015 17:05:21 GMT+00:00
Log sample:
May 15 16:00:47 localhost CEF:0|Trend Micro|Deep Discovery 
Email Inspector|2.5.1.1009|300105|ALERT_EVENT|6|rt=Jun 16 2
015 09:26:25 GMT+00:00 cs1Label=ruleName cs1=Security: Thre
at Messages cnt=1 cs2Label=ruleCriteria cs2=At least 1 thre
at message detected externalId=1299 cs3Label=ruleContent cs
3=The%20following%20email%20messages%20contain%20threats%3A
%0A%0A%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3
D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%
3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D%3D
%3D%3D%3D%0ARisk%3A%20Medium%20%28Malware%29%0AAction%3A%20
%20Quarantined%0AMessage%20ID%3A%20%3C20150616092610.B56A66
503C6%40localhost.ddei-164%3E%0ARecipients%3A%20fake%40test
.com%3Btest%40test.com%0ASender%3A%20test%40fake.test%0ASub
ject%3A%20temail%20-%20Copyaaa... dvcmac=00:50:56:01:2C:BC 
dvchost=localhost.ddei-164 deviceExternalId=361a091c-addd-
40cf-98e7-710e43500a66 dvc=10.204.253.164