Message Filter
Messages are a common theme in modern applications. Distributed systems often employ messaging as the inter-process communication medium. Applications generate several log messages. Message Filter allows users to capture and display messages in an intuitive and highly configurable user interface.
Users define a set of filters, windows and window-filter association. In the configuration file shown below, three windows ALL, PRIORITY and HYBRID are defined. Several filters as shown in the table are defined.
| Filter Types | Tabulated View | Sample Definition |
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Filter GARBAN contributor 2 Garban G Filter HILLIARD contributor 2 Hilliard H Filter LIBERTY contributor 2 Liberty L Filter XFP contributor 2 XFP X Filter IPM contributor 2 IPM I Filter SWAP contributor 2 Swap S Filter LINE_STATUS contains 2 input line I Filter SANITY contains 2 +- I Filter SEQUENCE contains 2 SEQUENCE |
These filters are then associated with the HYBIRD window as option.
In the table below we show the snapshot and the configuration file for this example.
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# WIDTH=420 HEIGHT=214 # hours 20 # minutes daily reset 06 # seconds daily reset 0 # Filter filter_name filter_type Filter PRIORITY priority Filter ALL all Filter ALIAS alias Filter VOLUME volume Filter CROSSED crossed #Filter # Filter filter_name parameter(s) #Filter filtername description Filter GARBAN contributor 2 Garban G Filter HILLIARD contributor 2 Hilliard H Filter LIBERTY contributor 2 Liberty L Filter XFP contributor 2 XFP X Filter IPM contributor 2 IPM I # Filter filter_name parameter(s) Filter SWAP contributor 2 Swap S # Filter filter_name parameter(s) Filter LINE_STATUS contains 2 input line I # Filter filter_name parameter(s) Filter SANITY contains 2 +- I Filter SEQUENCE contains 2 SEQUENCE Q # must always be in the following sequence # atleast one Filter, code,more filters as needed Filter SEQ_LINE HYBRID 3 SEQUENCE N LINE_STATUS #Window #Window Priority 12 80 0 Window PRIORITY 12 80 0 #Window LINE 12 80 0 #Window SEQUENCE 8 80 0 Window ALL 16 80 0 Window HYBRID 8 80 0 #Window GARBAN 8 80 0 #Window SANITY 8 80 0 # connect Connect ALL ALL Connect PRIORITY PRIORITY #Connect LINE LINE_STATUS #Connect SEQUENCE SEQUENCE #Connect GARBAN GARBAN #Connect SANITY SANITY #Connect HYBRID SEQ_LINE Connect HYBRID SANITY Options HYBRID SANITY ALIAS CROSSED VOLUME GARBAN LINE_STATUS SEQUENCE SEQ_LINE SWAP HILLIARD LIBERTY XFP IPM # # on 10/17 RK removed Window.GARBAN and included FILTER.GARBAN as an option |
