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Modify the Adapter Configuration File

When creating an Adapter, the bulk of the work is editing the configuration file.

This work involves setting the attributes in the XML file to control the behavior of the Adapter so that it performs as required. The configuration file is an XML file with each section corresponding to a step in its internal work-flow.

The sections are:

• General section: Miscellaneous Adapter attributes, working directory, output files specifications; debugging flag, defaults, and so on.

Oblicore:

• OblicoreInterface section: Attributes of the connection with the CA Business Service Insight Server (TCP/IP port, security mode, and so on).
• DatasourceInterface section: Attributes of the connection with the data source (files path and pattern, connection strings, SQL queries, and so on).
• InputFormatCollection section: Parsing rules for analyzing and manipulating the original data format (delimiters, field types, order of data, regular expressions, and so on).
• TranslatorCollection section: Rules for the CA Business Service Insight unified Event compounded from parsed and manipulated data fields.
• TranslationTableCollection section: Rules of data mapping between original data terminology and CA Business Service Insight data entities.

These sections are described in detail in Adapter Configuration Specifications.

Note: The order of the XML nodes within each section is not important.