Using A Stand-Alone Collator; To Run A Stand-Alone Collator - HP P4535A - Web Cache Server Appliance Administrator's Manual

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3. Edit the following variables:
records.config Variable
proxy.config.log2.collation_host
proxy.config.log2.collation_host_tagged
proxy.config.log2.collation_port
proxy.config.log2.collation_secret
4. Save and close the
5. Open the
lm.config
6. Edit the following variables:
lm.config variable
proxy.config.log2.collation_mode
7. Save and close the
8. Run the command

Using a stand-alone collator

If you do not want the log collation server to be a Traffic Server node, you can install and configure a stand-
alone collator (SAC) which can dedicate more of its power to collecting, processing, and writing log files.

To run a stand-alone collator:

1. Configure your Traffic Server nodes as log collation clients. Refer to
to be a collation client from Traffic Manager:‚ on page
2. Telnet into the HP web cache appliance and select Shell Access as described in
Methods‚ on page
3. Copy the SAC binary from Traffic Server's
serving as the stand-alone collator.
4. Copy the
records.config
collator.
file.
records.config
file located in the Traffic Server's
Description
Specify the option you want to use:
0: Disable log file collation.
1: Set host as a log collation server
2: Set host as a log collation client and send log entries using
standard formats to the collation server
3: Set host as a log collation client and send custom non-XML
formats to the collation server
4: Set host as a log collation client and send both standard and
custom non-XML formats to the collation server
file.
lm.config
to apply the configuration changes.
traffic_line -x
7.
/home/TS4/<version>/bin
file from a Traffic Server installation to a directory on the stand-alone
Description
Specify the collation server's hostname.
Set this variable to 1 if you want the hostname of the
collation client that generated the log entry to be included
in each entry.
Set this variable to 0 if you do not want the hostname of
the collation client that generated the log entry to be
included in each entry.
Specify the port used for communication between the
collation server and client.
Specify the password used to validate logging data and
prevent the exchange of arbitrary information.
directory with Vi.
config
To configure a Traffic Server node
116.
Working with Log Files
Overview of Access
directory to the machine
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