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Configure Dropbox Cloud Collector

Set up the Dropbox Cloud Collector to continuously ingest team activity logs from Dropbox.

  1. Before you configure the Dropbox Cloud Collector, ensure that you complete the prerequisites.

  2. Log in to the New-Scale Security Operations Platform with your registered credentials as an administrator.

  3. Navigate to Collectors > Cloud Collectors.

  4. Click New Collector.

  5. Click Dropbox.

  6. Enter the following information for the cloud collector.

    • NAME – Specify a name for the Cloud Collector instance.

    • CLIENT ID – Enter the App Key that you obtained while completing prerequisites.

    • CLIENT SECRET – Enter the App Secret that you obtained while completing prerequisites.

    • Click to authorize – Click to authorize the Exabeam Cloud Collector to communicate with the Dropbox account. Enter your user name and password for Dropbox. In a window that prompts you to provide access to allow Exabeam Cloud Collector to interact with Dropbox account for retrieving audit events, click Login.

    • DATA SOURCES – Select the Team Logs data source.

    • INGEST FROM – Select the time and date from which the collector must start ingesting events. If you leave this field blank and do not provide a threshold, all logs are ingested.

  7. (Optional) SITE – Select an existing site or to create a new site with a unique ID, click manage your sites. Adding a site name helps you to ensure efficient management of environments with overlapping IP addresses.

    By entering a site name, you associate the logs with a specific independent site. A sitename metadata field is automatically added to all the events that are going to be ingested via this collector. For more information about Site Management, see Define a Unique Site Name.

  8. (Optional) TIMEZONE – Select a time zone applicable to you for accurate detections and event monitoring.

    By entering a time zone, you override the default log time zone. A timezone metadata field is automatically added to all events ingested through this collector.

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  9. Click Install.

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    A confirmation message informs you that the new Cloud Collector is created.