Comparison of probe features

Both probes have some features in common and additional features specific to the IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Socket Java Probe.

Common features

The following features are common to both probes:

Table 1. Features common to both probes
Functional category	Features
Connection	Connection setup to the target host and port.
Alarm parsing	Alarm parsing and tokenization. Custom ASCII message text.
Data acquisition	Ability to receive alarms. Heartbeat status check. Inactivity timeout. Reconnection and probe backoff. Support for server failover. Support for stream capture. Chat in and chat out scripts. LoginScript for server.

The Socket Java Probe has the following additional features that are not present in the Socket Probe:

Table 2. Features specific to Socket Java Probe
Functional category	Features
SSL connectivity	Supports secure connection using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) between probe and remote host. New properties as follows: EnableSSL KeyStore KeyStorePassword SecurityProvider
Alarm parsing	New property to specify the character used as a name-value pair delimiter, as follows: ParserNVPDelimiter