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  3. Section VI. Data Collector Installation and Troubleshooting
  4. Data Collector Troubleshooting
  5. Host resources: Generating host resource configuration files
  6. Sample lines in an input file

Sample lines in an input file

# Sample configuration file to generate Host Resource Conf files 172.16.1.11-13,aptarelab3:root:adminpwd::172.16.1.12-13,apataredlab3
aptareaix1:root:superpwd::
apatrewin2k:samuel:adminpwd:aptarewin2kdomain:

Results

  • For each valid line, a host resource configuration is created under the home directory: /mbs/conf/hostresourceconf. Lines that are not valid are sent to standard output.

  • Creates a collector configuration xml file with Meta Data Collector child thread tags for each successfully created host resource configuration file. The file is saved in the home directory under /mbs/conf. The collector configuration xml is named in the following format:

    collectorconfig-<date>.xml where date is in DDMMMYYYHHMM format

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