Ebam/Source Adapters

eBAM is composed by a series of adapters that can retrieve messages from different sources and pass them to the Adapter Manager.

Log File Adapter

The log file Adapter is provived inside ebam and can parse an xml file, retrieving messages from it, and send them to the Adapter Manager. The log adapter optionally is able to restart reading the log from the message in which it previously stopped to read. To configured this adapter, take the eBAM runtime and go to subfolder plugins. With a tool that manage .jar archive, open the plugin org.eclipse.ebam.adapter_1.0.0.jar. Open the file /conf/configuration.xml. In this file you can configure the behaviour of the Log Adapter. Here there is a part of the text of the configuration.xml which shows the configuration of the log Adapter:

<adapter id="TEST_SERVICE">

 <property name="factory" value="org.eclipse.ebam.adapters.log.LogAdapter"/>
 <property name="source" value="C:/temp/logAllarme.log"/>
 <property name="key" value="FALSE"/>  
 <property name="append" value="FALSE"/>  
 <property name="modality" value="RECOVERY"/>

</adapter>

• The property "factory" has the name of the class that implement the Adapter.
• The property "source" has the path in which the adapter searchs for lof files. In this example, the adapter will search in C:/temp/ all the .log files that begin with logAllarme.
• The property "key" if set to true, make the log adapter serach for a standard key value, that is a sequence of numbers in this way: KEY=XXXXXXXX; and memorize it. It is useful in tha case that the adapter has to be stopped withouth reading all the messages that are on the log files, in fact it makes the adapter start for the messages it didn't read yet before it stopped.
• The property append if set to true, makes the adapter ignore messages already present in logs when it starts, and parses the first message that arrives after its starting.
• The property modality if present, makes the adapter able to restart reading the log from the message in which it previously stopped to read.