Properties and command line options

You use properties to specify how the probe interacts with the device. You can override the default values by using the properties file or the command line options.

The following table describes the properties and command line options specific to this probe. For information about default properties and command line options, see the IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Probe and Gateway Guide, (SC14-7530).

Table 1. Properties and command line options
Property name	Command line option	Description
AuthenticationEnabled `string`	-authenticationenabled `string`	Specifies whether authentication is enabled: The default is true. Note: If bus security is enabled, you must set this property to true, and you must specify the WAS username and password using the CEIServerUserName and CEIServerPassword properties.
CEIServerPassword `string`	-ceiserverpassword `string`	Password associated with the username specified by the CEIServerUserName property. The default is "".
CEIServerUserName `string`	-ceiserverusername `string`	Username that the probe uses to log onto WAS when authentication is enabled. The default is "".
EventGroup `string`	-eventgroup `string`	Group used to categorize the events generated by the CEI. The default is All events.
EventSelector `string`	-eventselector `string`	Filter the probe uses to filter the events generated by the CEI. The default is "". Note: This property uses standard XPath syntax.
Host `string`	-host `string`	Host on which the WebSphere Application Server is running. The default is "".
InitialContextFactory `string`	-initialcontextfactory `string`	Java interface that represents a factory and creates an initial context. The default is com.ibm.websphere.naming. WsnInitialContextFactory..
MaxEventQueueSize `integer`	-maxeventqueuesize `integer`	Maximum number of events that can be queued for processing at any one time. The probe discards any events received while the buffer is full. The default is 10000.
NamingPort `integer`	-namingport `integer`	Port through which the WebSphere Application Server sends events to the probe. The default is 2809.
Peerport `integer`	-peerport `integer`	Port used for communication between the master and slave probes in a peer-to-peer configuration. The default is 9999.
ReconnectionAttempts `integer`	-reconnectionattempts `integer`	Maximum number of times that the probe attempts to reconnect to the socket. The default is 5. Note: If you set this property to 0, the probe makes unlimited attempts to reconnect to the socket.
ReconnectionInterval `integer`	-reconnectioninterval `integer`	Time (in seconds) between successive reconnection attempts. The default is 300.