Connectors listen for events and also periodically send status events to the agent for transport to the CA User Activity Reporting Module server. A connector is a process that uses a log sensor and an integration to create a configuration for collecting events from a particular event source. Other than for syslog, a connector uses an integration as its configuration template. Syslog connectors are based on listeners.
Agents use connectors to collect events. After you install an agent, you can use the Agent Explorer on any CA User Activity Reporting Module server to configure one or more connectors on that agent. (The CA User Activity Reporting Module servers must be registered under the same management server (or external CA EEM server) and with the same application instance name to configure agents in this way.)
Note: While you can theoretically configure up to 256 connectors on a given agent, performance decreases with a large number of connectors. We recomend configuring no more than 70 connectors per agent for best performance.
There is generally one connector for each event source in the network. For syslog events, there may be one connector for many event sources, depending on your configuration choices. You can create several connectors that use the same integration but that have slightly different configuration details for accessing different event sources. Some connectors offer configuration helpers which gather information needed for access to the event source. If you need a connector for which there is currently no integration provided, you can create an integration using the integration wizard.
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