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The cytool adaptive_policy recalc command is used to look up and recalculate the policy being applied to a Cortex XDR agent, allowing engineers to verify the active policy enforcement on the endpoint.

To use a custom script in an alert layout, the script must be tagged with "general-purpose-dynamic-section", then a general purpose dynamic section is added to the layout, and finally the section settings are edited to attach the automation script. This ensures the script executes and displays results dynamically within the alert layout.

In a Broker VM cluster, the Syslog Collector applet runs in active/standby mode (active on the primary node, standby on others), while the Kafka Collector applet runs in active/active mode (active on all nodes). This design ensures both high availability and scalability for ingestion.

The MODEL section in a data model rule is used to map log fields to the corresponding Cortex XSIAM Data Model (XDM) fields. This ensures that ingested data aligns with XDM, enabling consistent analytics, detections, and queries across different data sources.

Cortex XSIAM allows configuring Email and Slack as direct alert notification options without requiring a playbook. PagerDuty and SMS integrations, however, require orchestration through playbooks.

When creating a data model rule, the field _event_type is automatically mapped from the dataset to the data model. This ensures events are categorized correctly in alignment with the Cortex XSIAM Data Model (XDM).

When creating a custom incident domain in Cortex XSIAM, alert grouping still applies, allowing related alerts to be combined into incidents. However, SmartScore is not applied, since it is reserved for predefined domains.

The correct approach is to install a Broker VM in the environment and configure its CSV Collector applet to ingest the .csv log files directly from the Ubuntu server. This enables secure ingestion of custom application logs into Cortex XSIAM without modifying the application or requiring an XDR agent on the server.

For upgrading a non-Linux Kubernetes cluster, the correct installer type is Helm, since Helm charts are the supported method for deploying and managing Cortex XDR agents in Kubernetes environments.

Cloud Identity Engine must be deployed in the same region as Cortex XSIAM to ensure compliance and proper data handling. Once integrated, the ingestion can be verified by checking the pan_dss_raw dataset, which records the raw directory synchronization logs.