Configuring the Common Event Infrastructure outputter component
The Common Event Infrastructure outputter takes Common Base Event records provided by the formatter,
and writes them to a Common Event Infrastructure emitter.
The Common Event Infrastructure emitter then sends them to a Common Event Infrastructure server.
Prerequisites
Procedure
To configure the Common Event Infrastructure outputter:
- Expand the Configuration node and then the Context Instance node.
- Right-click the Context Instance node and click Add > CEI Outputter.
The right pane shows the details of the outputter component.
- Expand the CEI Outputter node and click the Property providerURL node.
- Update the Property value field with
the URL of a remote Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) provider that will be used to look up the emitter factory.
- Optional: Add a new property:
- Right-click the CEI Outputter node and click Add > Property.
- Type the name and value of the new property.
See Adapter configuration file extensions for a list of properties for this outputter.
- Delete the other outputters. For example, right-click the Logging Agent Outputter node and click Delete.
- Expand the Contexts node and then the Basic Context Implementation node.
- Right-click the Basic Context Implementation node and click Add > CEI Outputter.
The right pane shows the details of the outputter component.
- Update the Unique ID field:
- Click the Browse button next to the Unique ID field.
- Expand the Adapter node, the Configuration node, and then the Context Instance node
and select the CEI Outputter node.
- Click OK. The Unique ID field is updated.
- Delete other outputters. For example, right-click the Logging Agent Outputter node and click Delete.
- Save the adapter configuration file to apply the changes.
Once you have configured the outputter, configure the plug-in manifest file for the log parser.
Related concepts
Overview of Generic Log Adapter
Adapter configuration editor
Related tasks
Deploying the log parser plug-in project
Creating a log parser
Creating a rules-based adapter
Related reference
Adapter configuration file structure
Regular expression grammar
Common Base Event format specification
Best practices for Common Base Event and Common Event Infrastructure
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