---
title: Correlation Rule Documentation Generator for McAfee SIEM
author: micha
date: 2018-04-29T13:09:57+00:00
url: /correlation-rule-documentation-generator-for-mcafee-siem/
categories:
  - Uncategorized

---
Since we are required to document all custom correlation rules inside our SIEM (McAfee Enterprise Security Manager) for our customers, I wrote a Python script that converts XML rule exports to Markdown. Afterwards its easy to convert teh resulting file e.g. to PDF, DOCX, HTML or even variuous wiki-formats with e.g. Pandoc. This way it’s possible to generate a PDF documentation of all rules with just a few clicks/commands.

![image][1]

On the long shot that this is useful for you, you can find the script on [Github][2].

Please comment on this on the [McAfee Support Community][3] or on [Github][2].

 [1]: /img/esm2markdown.png
 [2]: https://github.com/exitnode/esm2markdown "Github"
 [3]: https://community.mcafee.com/t5/Security-Information-and-Event/Script-Automatic-Correlation-Rule-Documentation-Generator/m-p/590048