You can download this log_generator tool for Mac OS X right now and and use it to generate logs for 5 years.
How do you use it?
Download both files into a folder
Unzip the log_generator by double clicking it
From the Iguana X dashboard, double click on the component created in the previous part to bring up its information
Then from the Mac OS X terminal run the following command, replacing <component> with what you copied from the url:
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./log_generator --months 60 --component <component> |
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The script will tell you the timestamp of the oldest log generated - you will need this later
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Wait for the script to say Finished
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The script will generate 5 years worth of logs, with 1000 messages per day each 1 kb in size. So, the command generates about 1.7 gb of log data
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Iguana X 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 Iguana X can handle gigabytes of log and queue data!
How to use it:
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| title | STEP 1: From the dashboard of Iguana X, click on + Component |
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In order to use the logging and queuing system, first we’ll need a new component.  Image Added |
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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 http://localhost:7654/#log_generator |
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You will need to edit the URL of your page carefully to replace what ever you see after the # character in your URL with #log_generator in it. This might look like http://localhost:7654/#log_generator depending on how your Iguana is configured. Be very careful to make sure you only have #log_generator - sometimes people make mistakes like appending #log_generator to #dashboard and so on - this will not work.
Type the URL (http://localhost:7654/#log_generator) into the bar like the screenshot below:
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| title | STEP 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 | STEP 5: Now search for "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 to check startup time |
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Stop and then start iguana and see how quickly it starts up. Iguana will start quickly even though you have a lot of log data. We’ve engineered Iguana to handle logs for as long as you need them, without a performance degradation.
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Let's test transferring logs to another component, please continue to our next page Reposition the queue to replay messages.
