Generic event data source (properties)

Component

Requirement

Data source

You can choose between two default data sources and define a custom data source. What to choose depends on your third party program and/or the hard- or software you want to interface from:

Compatible: Factory default settings are enabled, echoes all bytes, TCP and UDP, Ipv4 only, port 1234, no separator, local host only, current code page encoding (ANSI).

International: Factory default settings are enabled, echoes statistics only, TCP only, Ipv4+6, port 1235, <CR><LF> as separator, local host only, UTF-8 encoding. (<CR><LF> = 13,10).

[Data source A]

[Data source B]

and so on.

New

Click to create a new data source.

Name

Name of the data source.

Enabled

Data sources are by default enabled. Clear the check box to disable the data source.

Reset

Click to reset all settings for the selected data source. The entered name in the Name field remains.

Port

The port number of the data source.

Protocol type selector

Protocols which the system should listen for, and analyze, in order to detect generic events:

Any: TCP as well as UDP.

TCP: TCP only.

UDP: UDP only.

TCP and UDP packages used for generic events may contain special characters, such as @, #, +, ~, and more.

IP type selector

Selectable IP address types: IPv4, IPv6 or both.

Separator bytes

Select the separator bytes used to separate individual generic event records. Default for data source type International (see Data sources earlier) is 13,10. (13,10 = <CR><IF>).

Echo type selector

Available echo return formats:

  • Echo statistics: Echoes the following format:

    [X],[Y],[Z],[Name of generic event]

    [X] = request number.

    [Y] = number of characters.

    [Z] = number of matches with a generic event.

    [Name of generic event] = name entered in the Name: field.

  • Echo all bytes: Echoes all bytes.
  • No echo: Suppresses all echoing.

Encoding type selector

By default, the list only shows the most relevant options. Select the Show all check box to display all available encodings.

Show all

See previous bullet.

Allowed external IPv4 addresses

Specify the IP addresses, that the management server must be able to communicate with in order to manage external events. You can also use this to exclude IP addresses that you do not want data from.

Allowed external IPv6 addresses

Specify the IP addresses, that the management server must be able to communicate with in order to manage external events. You can also use this to exclude IP addresses that you do not want data from.

Tip: Ranges can be specified in each of the four positions, like 100,105,110-120. As an example, all addresses on the 10.10 network can be allowed by 10.10.[0-254].[0-254] or by 10.10.255.255.

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