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How do I set up Refinitiv Contex monitoring

NOTE: The product has been rebranded to Refinitiv Contributions Real-Time

To start up, ConteX itself should be opened up for output streaming of stats and logs. This is done in the Stathandler using the ConteX Configuration tool:

1. Open ConteX Configuration from the Start Menu on the host.

   • Choose Edit current configuration. Default username and password are admin and password

   • Expand the State Tree and choose STAT. Click on Edit…(if you do not have this option, in the top menu click on Add > Handler > STAT)

     

     • 1.a is the probe host that the Stathandler should talk to

     • 1.b the probe port and

     • 1.c the managed entity. These should all match the setup in the GSE

     • 2 is the name of the API sampler we create in the GSE

     • 3 is the name of the API-STREAM sampler that we create in the GSE

     • 4 is the stream that we send to the API-STREAM sampler

     • The username and password are for the Stathandler, so for our configuration we use the same as we did to log into ConteX Configuration

   • Click on the top icon to Apply Configuration

2. Open the GSE.

   • On the managed entity named in 1.c, create 3 samplers:

     • CONTEX is an API plugin. You can give it any name as long as it matches what we stated in the Stathandler as no. 2. No settings are necessary

     • CTXSTRM is an API-STREAM plugin. Again use the name we stated as no. 3 in the **Stathandler.**In the Stream name, use what we entered as no. 4

       

       In Advanced, set the buffer size if necessary and enable Create View.

     • CTX-FKM is an FKM plugin. Name is of your choice here. Instead of file we are going to be grabbing a stream. The stream name is a combination of ..<no. 4 entry from the Stathandler>. If in doubt, the name will be stated in the API-STREAM metrics

       

   • Save and close the GSEWe should now have a number of Metrics on the CONTEX sampler. These are all generated by the Stathandler and any requests for changes to these should be coursed through

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   The CTXSTRM sampler is merely capturing the log stream to pass on to the CTX-FKM where we can now set normal FKM Tables to capture events from the ConteX logs passed through the Stathandler.