1prelude-manager(1) General Commands Manual prelude-manager(1)
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6 prelude-manager - Collects and normalize events.
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9 prelude-manager [options]
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12 Prelude Manager is a high-availability server which can collect, fil‐
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23 --prelude Prelude generic options
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25 --profile=<name> Profile to use for this analyzer
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38 -t, --type=<type> Type of database (mysql/pgsql/sqlite3)
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