All configuration options supported by the Network Traffic Collector are defined in a configuration file. By default, the collector will look for a file called ccnetcollect.conf located in the same directory as the collector itself. You must edit this file to suit the environment. Any changes made to the file become active when the collector is restarted.
You can force the collector to use an alternative configuration file by using the -f option as follows:
ccnetcollect -f myconfig.conf
To generate a sample configuration file, which will contain information about all the available configuration options, use the command line option -sampleconfig. This will output the sample configuration to the terminal, so to capture it as a file use redirection as follows:
ccnetcollect -sampleconfig > myconfig.conf
A configuration file consists of configuration items of the form item = value. All whitespace is ignored, and any text on a line after a # character is also ignored. The item specified on each line can be in upper case, lower case, or a mixture of the two.
The collector will perform a number of sanity checks on the values specified in the configuration file, as well as establish that no required items are missing. In the event of missing or invalid data, diagnostic information will be written to the logfile specified in the configuration file, or to syslog if no logfile is specified.
If any required options are missing, the collector will inform you how many are missing and refer you to the log file for the specific list of missing options.
