Configuration of Job Log Forwarding - ironstream_for_elastic - ironstream_for_kafka - ironstream_for_splunk - 7.4

1. From the Configuration Tool, select the Job Log Forwarding tab. This will display all the filters for the job log forwarding.

Figure 22: Job Log Forwarding tab

2. Click the Create button to create a new Job Log Forwarding filter or click the Edit button to modify an existing filter. You can also Copy, Rename, or Delete an existing filter.

Figure 23: Create a new Job Log Forwarding Filter form

3. Enter values for these fields:

Table 3: Fields of a Job Log Forwarding Filter definition

Job Name

Specify the filter that will define one or more jobs whose job logs you want to collect. The restrictions are as follows:

• The text must be limited to 10 characters.

• The text defined in this field MUST be unique in defined list of Job Log Forwarding Filters.

• The text can only begin with one of these characters:

A letter, or any of these: ‘$’ ‘#’ ‘@’

• The text can be a mix of these characters:

Letters, numbers, or any of these: ‘$’ ‘#’ ‘@’ ‘.’ ‘_’

Required

Comment

Enter any additional information that can be useful for future review.

Assigned systems

Assign the systems that you require this filter to be applied.

Filters

You can use the Add Filter button to filter the message IDs to be forwarded from the job log. Use the Delete button to remove message IDs from the filter.

The restrictions are as follows:

• It must be limited to 7 Alphanumeric characters.

• Up to two wildcard characters are allowed.

Note: A period (.) indicates that any single character in that position should be considered a match.

See these examples:

Messages Required

Filters

All messages *

ABC1234 ABC1234

All messages beginning with "ABC"

ABC*

Any 7-character message beginning with "ABC" and ending with "9"

ABC...9

4. Click the Save button to update the filter.

5. Select the Job Log Forwarding filter and click the Distribute button to send the filter to the Ironstream Agent for IBM i. The EVSBS subsystem and the MCS Service for the Ironstream Agent must be running at the time of the distribution.