Creating Channel objects

Trust Protection Platform is designed so you can create multiple channel instances for any given channel type. This means you can create multiple channel configurations to handle 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 > Built-In node. You can use the default channels as-is, you can modify the default channels, or you can reference their configurations as a guide to help you create your own channel objects.

If you modify a default channel, you can revert it to it's factory settings at any time by clicking on the channel, then clicking the Revert action.

To create a channel object in VCC

  1. In Venafi Configuration Console (VCC), browse to the Tools > Logging > Channels node.

  2. In the Actions panel, click the type of channel you want to create.

    • SQL Server:  Log events to a Microsoft SQL Server database. For more information, see SQL Server channel.
    • SMTP Forward logged events to specified a specified email destination. For more information, see SMTP channel.
    • 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.
    • SNMP: Forward logged events to an Simple Network Management (SNMP) system. For more information, see SNMP channel.

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

  3. Complete the channel configuration, then click OK.