Hello Everyone,
Is there anyone who is working with Archvier with it's reporting feature, like I have two Archiver each at a seperate site along with the service of Workbench with both the Archivers.
Yesterday I had gone through some of the documents available on sadocs on how to run a report in Archiver with the Workbench feature, but the problem what I noticed is that, I have a no idea what to set in the collections in the workbench config's. Below is the screenshot attached.
Now because of the collections option is blank, now the I am not able to add the workbench in reporting engine to run the reports on old data.
Kindly suggest if any one have any idea regarding to this.
Thanks.
Regards,
Deepanshu Sood.
FYI - I've had to do some of this work and here is what you need to do.
First of all the Workbench is designed to bring data BACK from say NAS or cold storage after it is rolled off the archiver. Say you have 1 year retention on archivers and configure the cold storage off to NAS then if you need to report on that older data you have to use the workbench and you'll need either space on your DAC's or scratch space connected to the archiver to reprocess/decompress the log data.
Second, the archiver aggregates off the log decoders. When you add the log decoder service to the archiver by default it collects around 40 meta keys. If you want to add custom meta keys then you need to add the service (don't start aggregation and don't enable autostart of aggregation). Make sure that status of the log decoder under Archiver aggregation is offline and then go to Explore interface of the Archiver service. Under Archiver > Devices > Log Decoder IP > Config in the left hand pane will be a options field, make sure you add any custom meta at the end of the metaInclude= value
Example:
metaInclude=action,alert,custom1,custom2
It should save automatically and then go back to Archiver config screen and toggle service to turn it on. Then start aggregation and re-enable autoaggregate capture.
Third, you should have the index-archiver-custom.xml file updated to reflect these new keys for each archiver you plan to have aggregating these custom fields.
Hope that helps.