Configuring an adapter for a Common Event Infrastructure server

You can configure an adapter to write Common Base Event records to a Common Event Infrastructure server.

Prerequisites

Create a rules-based adapter or Create a static adapter

Procedure

To configure the Common Event Infrastructure adapter:

  1. Create a rules-based adapter or a static adapter.
  2. Replace the default outputter component with the Common Event Infrastructure outputter. See Configuring the Common Event Infrastructure outputter component on how to configure the Common Event Infrastructure outputter.

Related concepts
Overview of Generic Log Adapter
Adapter configuration editor

Related tasks
Creating a log parser

Related reference
Adapter configuration file structure
Regular expression grammar
Common Base Event format specification
Best practices for Common Base Event and Common Event Infrastructure