The Symantec Event Collector for UNIX Operating Systems enables centralized, cross-tier logging, alerting, and reporting between the Symantec Enterprise Security Architecture (SESA) event management system and the UNIX operating system. The Symantec Event Collector for UNIX Operating Systems retrieves events that are generated by the UNIX operating system and forwards these events to SESA. These events are stored in the SESA DataStore (a database), where you can view them in reports, use them as the basis for configuring alert notifications and incident creation, and configure them as raw data for report generation.