Configuring Kibana dashboard

Use these procedures to configure the Dashboard.

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To send data to Elasticsearch, follow these configuration steps:

Procedure

  1. CD to: root_install.
  2. Edit the config.yaml file.
  3. Find the /rest/eventReporter: entries.
  4. Set the following for host and port: host: “127.0.0.1” and port: 15901.
  5. Save the config.yaml file.
  6. CD to root_install/config
  7. Open the eventreporter.properties file: vi eventreporter.properties
  8. Search for TARGET_TYPE .
  9. Append the following to TARGET_TYPE:TARGET_TYPE=elasticsearch
  10. Search for ELASTICSEARCH_HOST.1 file.
  11. Set the IP address of your Elasticsearch server:ELASTICSEARCH_HOST.1=<ipaddress>

    When a flow or map is run, it will populate data in the Dashboard.