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title | STEP 1 : Add a Custom component called Destination |
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From Iguana X’s dashboard, click + Component Image Added In the Add Components dialog that pops up, select Custom , which should be the first option Then click Add and name it Destination . Click Image Added in the bottom right of the dialogto add your component. You should see a new component appear on the dashboard
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title | STEP 2 : Link the source and destination components |
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Now we will need to link the two components together so that messages can be pushed from one component to another. Assuming Source is the component with the logs and Destination is the component created above, do this by: From the Iguana X’s dashboardX Dashboard, click Edit Connections First click Source , then click Destination A queue link should appear connecting the two, with the arrow on the link pointing from Source to Destination Click on Edit Connections again to exit this mode
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title | STEP 3 : Reposition the queue |
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Now that the components are linked, we can reposition the queue. From Iguana X’s dashboard, double click on Destination to bring up the component card In the Queue Position row click reposition Change the date to go back 5 yearsto a previous date (with a trial you can only search back 30 days): After clicking reposition the dialog will close itself and you will see the updated queue position in the component card: Image Removed. Then close the card and pay attention to fact that there should be a large number of days of logs in the QUE column on the dashboard. Image Added |
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title | STEP 4: Turn on the Destination Component to process the messages from repositioned queue |
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Going to the Logs tab and selecting Destination as the component, you should see a log message showing that a new queue position was accepted: Going back to the dashboard and running the Destination component by toggling the switch, the component will begin to process messages from its queue and the QUE value will start to decrease: |
Next, let’s use the Component Creator Tool to generate a large number of component’s quickly.