User Configured Settings

This feature is used to configure settings for NetDiagnostics Collector (NDC) and NetDiagnostics Processor (NDP), which are not supported from UI. Whenever a new NDC / NDP setting is supported from User Configured Settings section, it can be configured from Custom Configuration screen.

The user can configure following:

  1. Add a keyword for agent
  2. Add a keyword for NDC
  3. Configure an agent keyword in profile
  4. Configure NDC keyword

For user configured settings, click the User Configured Settings icon from the left menu. This displays a window where user can configure new settings for agent and NDC.

Configure Agent Settings

To configure Agent settings, click the Agent Settings tab. Settings added from this screen can be configured from Custom Configuration screen in Advance settings.

Follow the below mentioned steps to configure the agent setting and view them in custom configuration screen.

  1. Within the Agent Settings tab, click the Add Settings This displays the Add Settings dialog box.

2. Provide the following details:

  • Name: Settings name, should be different from already supported settings, otherwise an error message will be displayed
  • Agent: Agent settings can be of three types: Java, DotNet, NodeJS
  • Type: Settings can be of type: Integer, String, Char, Double, Long and File
  • Default Value: Each settings must have a default value
  • Min & Max Value: Optional in case of Integer/Double/Long
  • Description: Describes the setting to be supported (Optional)
  1. Once the details are provided, click the Save button.

4. This adds the specified agent setting in the list and a confirmation message is displayed for getting it saved successful. All user-configured settings will be shown in UI with their default value and supported agent(s). Specific agent will show only those settings which comes under supported agents.

Note: User can edit / delete this setting by clicking the  /  icons respectively. If the setting to be deleted is configured in any application, then user will not be able to delete it.

5. To apply this setting, navigate to a profile and click the Custom Configuration This displays the Custom Configuration window.

6. Click the Add button, a dialog box is displayed where user can select the newly configured settings and apply in the profile.

Note: In the ‘ndExceptionFilterList’ configuration, a user can provide comma separated exceptions.

Configure NDC Settings

To configure NDC settings, click the NDC Settings tab. To add NDC custom settings, all the steps used are same as they are for Agent Settings. Settings added from this screen can be configured from Custom Configuration screen in NDC UI within an Application.

Follow the below mentioned steps to configure the agent setting and view them in custom configuration screen.

  1. Within the NDC Settings tab, click the Add Settings This displays the Add Settings dialog box.

2. Provide the following details:

  • Name: Settings name, should be different from already supported settings, otherwise an error message will be displayed
  • Type: Type can be NDC/NDP
  • Default value: Every setting must have a default value
  • Min and Max Value: Optional
  • Description: To describe the setting to be configured

3. Once the details are provided, click the Save button.

4. This adds the specified NDC setting in the list and a confirmation message is displayed for getting it saved successfully. All user-configured settings will be shown in UI with their default value and supported agent(s). Specific agent will show only those settings which comes under supported agents.

Note: User can edit / delete this setting by clicking the  /  icons respectively. If the setting to be deleted is configured in any application, then user will not be able to delete it.

5. To apply this setting, navigate to the application on which this setting is to be applied. To do this, click the Application menu and then click the corresponding ND Controller Settings icon.

  1. Then, click the Custom Configuration tab.

7. Click the Add button, a dialog box is displayed where user can select the newly configured settings and apply in the profile.

Settings

With this feature, a user can configure the RTC time out value. To do that, click the Settings tab.

The default value of RTC Time Out is 60 seconds. When the user applies the RTC changes by Profile or by Application, the configured value is set.

Key Highlights

For AGENT,

  • Setting can be added for any of the three agents (i.e. Java, Node JS, Dot Net)
  • Type of Setting (Char, Long, Double, Integer, String, File)

For NDC,

  • NDC Settings can be of two types NDC or NDP
  • Min and Max values are optional in this case

For Both,

  • Only one setting can be deleted at a time
  • If the setting to be deleted is configured in any profile/application then user will not be able to delete it
  • Same settings cannot be configured multiple times.