XpoLog help - Address Book
General
Xpolog holds information concerning remote protocol connections, databases, e-mails and file system locations in entities called accounts. Each of these accounts contains general information, such as the account's name and description, and specific information pertaining to the specific account type, like host address, port, user name and password in the case of an SSH account, or the email address in the case of an email account. These accounts are used for defining logs, as for instance in the case of database logs or ftp logs, and for various other operations, such as exporting logs and folders and defining sql queries on previously defined logs. each of these entities is an entry in Xpolog's address book.

You can view the address book by clicking the 'Address Book' entry under the 'Data Support' top menu. A list of all available accounts will be displayed.


Http account
  1. In the address book main page, select 'Http' in the 'View addresses from type' combo box and click the 'Add new account' link. in case 'All' was selected in the type combo box, clicking the 'Add new account' link will redirect you to a page listing all the account types. Select 'Http account'.
  2. Enter the name of the new account; you can also add a description for the account.

  3. Enter the host URL of the http account and click the 'save' link.

Ftp account
  1. In the address book main page, select 'Ftp' in the 'View addresses from type' combo box and click the 'Add new account' link. in case 'All' was selected in the type combo box, clicking the 'Add new account' link will redirect you to a page listing all the account types. select 'Ftp account'.
  2. Enter the name of the new account; the description is no compulsory field.
  3. Enter the ftp site URL, the port number (default is 21), and the user name and password, and click the 'save' link.

SSH account
Xpolog allows you to define a log residing on a Linux machine through a secured shell. Define the SSH account just as you would define a ftp account; notice that the default SSH port is 22.
The default file transfer protocol is SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol), however you can configure in the account to use SCP (Secure Copy Protocol).

Email account
Enter here simply the name, description and the email address, and click the 'save' link to make your changes permanent.
 

File System account
Enter here the name, description and the directory path.
 

SNMP account
Enter here the SNMP server details. XpoLog will use these details to create SNMP trap.
 

JMS account
Enter here the JMS server details, queue name, etc. XpoLog will use these details to send a JMS message.
 

Database account

XpoLog supports connection to JDBC and ODBC supported databases.

  • Oracle, MySQL and SQL Sever:
    1. Enter the name and description of the database account.
    2. Enter the driver name you want to use for the connection. For these databases, Xpolog offers you the default drivers.
    3. Enter the user name and password needed to connect to the database. If the fields are left empty Xpolog will use the default user and password for each of these databases.
    4. Enter the database name.
    5. The machine address and the port number have default values; you can override them if needed.
     
  • ODBC:
    1. Enter the name and description of the database account.
    2. Enter the driver name you want to use for the connection. Xpolog offers a default driver which is loaded automatically.
    3. Enter the user name and password needed to connect to the database. Here the user name is mandatory, and the password can be left empty only in case the user specified does not require one.
       
  • Other:
      In case you use a different database than the ones listed above, use the 'Other' option and enter the following details:
    1. Enter the name (and description) of the database account.
    2. Enter the driver name you want to use for the connection. No default value is supplied here.
    3. Enter the user name and password needed to connect to the database.