Configuring the probe

After installing the probe you need to make various configuration settings to suit your environment.

The following table outlines how to use the probe's properties to configure the product's features. Configuration of some features is mandatory for all installations. For those features set the properties to the correct values or verify that their default values are suitable for your environment. Further configuration is optional depending on how many features of the probe you want to use.

Table 1. Configuring the probe
Feature	Properties	See
Mandatory features:
Socket mode The probe can be configured to operate in either Server mode or Client mode.	SocketMode	Running the probe in either Server mode or Client mode
Connection setup The information needed to set up the connection to the target host and port (depends on client or server mode).	EndpointSocketHost EndpointSocketPort LocalSocketHost LocalSocketPort	Properties and command line options
Alarm parsing (multi line)	ParserSingleLines ParserParseAsLines ParserElementDelimiter ParserAlarmStart ParserAlarmEnd ParserNextAlarmDelimter	Event stream parsing for multiple lines
Optional features:
Inactivity policy Specifies whether the probe disconnects from the socket endpoint following a period of inactivity.	Inactivity	Properties and command line options provided by the probe framework version 4.0
Alarm parsing (single line)	ParserSingleLines ParserElementDelimiter ParserNVPDelimiter	Event stream parsing as a single line
Data stream capture Allows you to capture the stream of raw data from the target device and store it in a file.	StreamCapture StreamCaptureFilePath	Data stream capture
Peer-to-peer failover pair Allows you to set up two probes to act as a failover pair to improve availability. If the master probe should stop working, the slave probes takes over until the master is available once more.	MessageLog Mode PeerHost PeerPort PidFile PropsFile RulesFile	Peer-to-peer failover functionality
Probe component logging properties Allows you to configure the logging properties used by the DSL framework for troubleshooting.	DSLLogConfig	Properties and command line options
Running multiple instances of the probe Allows you to run two or more instances of the probe on a single host machine.	EndpointSocketPort LocalSocketPort Name PropsFile RulesFile	Running the probe
Running the probe as a Windows service	None	Running the probe