XpoLog help - Wizards
 
General
XpoLog comes with a set of wizards that automate the process of adding configuration of folders, logs and reports of known applications to XpoLog. You can either use the automatic configuration wizard, which automatically detects known applications on your XpoLog server and other computers in your network and configures them, or use the manual wizards that require solely the location of the application you wish to configure in XpoLog but perform no automatic detection of their locations.

Automatic Configuration Wizard
The automatic configuration wizard is a powerful tool for adding configurations of known applications that are installed on local and remote machines to XpoLog.
In this three step process you are able to detect that applications, create their configuration and finally generate reports and dashboard data.

How to start the wizard?
The wizard can be launched from two places:
  1. By clicking the 'Start Wizard' button in XpoLog's home page.
  2. By clicking the 'Run Automatic Configuration Wizard' link in the 'Add Log' administration page.

What happens at each step of the wizard execution?

  1. Detection
    • The wizard will search for known applications installed on the local machine and display the list of the applications that were detected.
    • If an application was not detected automatically for some reason you can add it manually by clicking the 'Add Application Manually' link and specifying it type and location.
    • You can add remote hosts in which XpoLog will search for known applications. Do this by entering the host name, type, username and password and clicking the 'Add Host' button. XpoLog will search for know applications' installation on the host and display a list of the applications that were detected.
    • Again, if an application was not detected automatically for some reason you can add it manually by clicking the 'Add Application Manually' link and specifying it type and location.
    • After the detection phase is finished select the applications whose configuration you want to add and click the 'Next' button to move to the next step.
  2. Configuration
    • In this step XpoLog is generating the configuration (folders, logs and reports) of the applications that were selected in the previous step.
    • When XpoLog is finished you will see a screen with summary of all the configurations that were created.
    • At this point you will have to options:
      1. Click the 'Next' button if you want XpoLog to generate reports and dashboard data.
        Note that you can click the 'Advanced' link in order to specify the time frame to which the data should be generated.
      2. Click the 'Done' button if you don't want XpoLog to generate reports and dashboard data.
  3. Dashboard
    • In this step XpoLog is generating data for the reports and dashboard, according to the time frame defined in the previous screen (if no time frame was specified by the user the default is last day for reports and last 30 days for dashboard).
    • When XpoLog is finished the window XpoLog is running in will display the dashboard and the wizard window will show links to main areas in XpoLog:

      • Dashboard - View system health summary.
      • Log Viewer - View all logs created.
      • Search Engine - Run searches on logs.
      • Reports - View application reports.
      • Diagnostics - Run problem isolation process.

Automatic Scanner Wizard

The automatic scanner wizard is a powerful tool for detecting and adding configurations for predefined configurations, only by giving Xpolog a root directory to scan. Xpolog will run over the root directory (and all it's subdirectories) ,detect the predefined configurations and will enable you to add them.

How to start the wizard?
The wizard can be launched from three places:
  1. Click the 'Administration' tab in XpoLog's start page left panel and then click 'Auto Scanner' tab. 
  2. Click on 'Administration' in the drop down top menu, then click on 'Add Log' tab. In 'Data Source Administration page' that will be opened, click on 'Run Automatic Scanner Wizard' link.
  3. You can also run this wizard (without advanced settings) from 'Logs Scanner' in Xpolog's 'Start Page'.

What should be done at each step of a wizard?

  1. Specify the path to start the scan from.You may specify an account to be used in case you want to scan directories located on a remote machine.
    Enter an application name in case you want to attach the new detected configurations to your application.              Check the 'Process also...' check box in case you want to add file that no predefined templates were found match to them. In the 'Advanced Scanned Filters' link you can insert regular expression indicate file\directories to include or exclude while scanning (for example : *.log...) . You can also select the number of subdirectories levels while scanning. Check the 'Ignore data matching' check box in case you want to match configurations only by the file's data (without checking its name). 
  2. Click the 'next' link to view the folders and logs that were found by the wizard.
  3. Select the folders and logs you want XpoLog to create and click the 'next' link.
 

Manual Wizards

XpoLog has two types of manual wizards:
  1. Configuration - this type of wizard allows you to point XpoLog to a configuration file and XpoLog will read the file and create the logs that it defines.
  2. Application - this type of wizard allows you to point XpoLog to the root path of an installed application and XpoLog will create all logs the exist under the application.

How to start a wizard?
The wizards are activated from the 'View Wizards' page under the 'Configuration' top menu.

What should be done at each step of a wizard?

  1. Specify the path to the configuration file/application root path, according to the selected type of wizard.
    Note: In configuration wizard, if relative paths are used in the configuration file, you should specify the root path as well.
  2. You may specify an account to be used in case the configuration/application is located on a remote machine.
  3. Click the 'next' link to view the folders and logs that were found by the wizard.
  4. Select the folders and logs you want XpoLog to create and click the 'next' link.
 
Additional links
     How to add a log
     Templates