Iguana X IguanaX has a log generator tool built into it which will import and replicate a lot of log data by using the works of Shakespeare. (yes we know you didn’t buy Iguana for Shakespeare but it makes more interesting reading than HL7 or hex data.)
It’s a useful tool to demonstrate how IguanaX can handle gigabytes of log and queue data!
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| title | STEP 1: From the dashboard of IguanaX, click on + Component |
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queuing system, first we’ll need a new component. |
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| title | From the dashboard of Iguana X, click on +Component |
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| title | STEP 2: In Add Components create a Custom component call Source |
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In the Add Components dialog that pops up, select Custom Change the name of the component to Source Click Add in the bottom right of the dialog. You should see a new component appear in the dashboard.
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| title | STEP 3: Change your URL to go to have http://localhost:7654/#log_generator at the end of it |
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| title | Generate the logsSTEP 4: Generate 60 months of logs for your component |
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On this new page, use the dropdown to select the Source component created in the earlier part Also change the number of months of logs to generate to 60:
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| title | Go to the logs section and select your component |
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| title | STEP 5: Now search for the magic string"magicString" and try log browser features to check performance |
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Copy: magicString Follow these steps:
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| title | STEP 6: Now stop and start Iguana |
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Log resubmission
Often when a new system is brought into an existing integration the messages for the last few months or years are replayed to bring the system up to speed. Iguana X provides a solution for this in the form of log resubmission.
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| title | STEP 1 : Add a destination component |
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From the previous parts, we have a component set up with 5 years of log data. In order to try this out, we will need another component. From Iguana X’s dashboard, click + Component In the Add Components dialog that pops up, select Custom, which should be the first option Then click Add in the bottom right of the dialog You should see a new component appear on the dashboard
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| title | STEP 2 : Link the components together |
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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 Iguana X’s dashboard, click Edit Connections First click Source, then click Destination A 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 Source to bring up the component card In the Queue Position row click reposition  Image Removed
Use the date picker to go back in time 5 years Once you have a valid start reposition time, click reposition to reposition the queue  Image Removed
Exit out of the reposition dialog and then exit out of the component card. This can take a few seconds.
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| title | STEP 4: Turn on the Destination Component to begin the reposition |
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For Destination the QUE column on the dashboard should read some large number of days depending on how far back the queue was repositioned
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
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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
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| title | Now see if you can understand from the Logs screen how to resubmit a specific message |
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Let's test transferring logs to another component, please continue to our next page Reposition the queue to replay messages.
