TIB RV Stream Plug-In

Introduction

GENEOS TIB RV Stream plug-in turns RV traffic into Geneos Streams. Geneos Streams are an internal representation of the message flow - this could also be described as a 'virtual' file. The Steams can be fed into the File Keyword Monitoring (FKM) plug-in in the same way as a regular file and so detect predefine text patterns that occur in an RV stream.

In a typical setup, one TIB-RV Stream plug-in instance monitors a number of streams on one or more subjects. A NetProbe may run multiple plug-in instances, so that multiple publishers with different RV parameters can be monitored from a single NetProbe.

Views (for a single view)

View

The TIB RV Stream plug-in does not produce any views by default- it is purely used to create Geneos Streams, that are then monitored by the FKM plug-in. However, it possible to set the TIB-RV Stream into a debug mode, where a diagnostic view is produced as follows:

tibrv_stream_image2

Headline Legend

Name	Description
rvTransportState	The current state of the RV transport. Will be initialised or failed.
rvService	Name/number of the RV service that was configured.
rvNetwork	RV network that was configured.
rvDaemon	RV daemon that was configured.

Table Legend

Name	Description
name	Name of the Geneos Stream
listenSubject	The subject that the stream is listening on
status	Status of the Geneos Stream.

Plug-in Configuration

The following parameters can be configured for this plug-in:

service

The Rendezvous service parameter. This is the UDP or PGM port number that will be used to subscribe.

Mandatory: No

Default: A service defined on the machine called rendezvous. If this does not exist then the following hard defaults exist: TRDP 7500, PGM 7550.

network

The Rendezvous network parameter. This is formed of three parts colon separated. The interface name and a set of comma separated multicast addresses.

e.g.

"<ifname>;<mcgroup1>,<mcgroup2>" or "eth1;239.10.10.1,239.10.10.2"

Note: The send address part of this configuration is not relevant as the plug-in only subscribes.

Mandatory: Yes

daemon

The hostname and address of an RVD to connect to and subscribe from. Specify using the format <hostname>:<portnumber>. For example:

myhost:7500

If using a local daemon the host part can be omitted.

Mandatory: No

Default: Will default to the local daemon port 7500.

subjects

A set of RV subjects for the stream to listen to are configured here. At least one subject must be configured.

Mandatory: Yes

subjects > subjects > name

The name or alias given to this subject.

Mandatory: No

Default: If not specified the rvSubject parameter is used.

subjects > subjects > rvSubject

The RV subject to subscribe to. RV Subjects names are dot '.' separated and have the '>' character as a wildcard.

e.g.

bondrate.real-time.bonds.gov.uk.>

Mandatory: Yes

createView

If set to true will display a diagnostic view for each configured Geneos Stream.

Mandatory: No

Default: false