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monitoring_start

Will add a new EXAConf section 'Monitoring' with all the important configuration parameters.

Mandatory parameters

Parameter name	Data type	Description
broker	string	Kafka broker that monitoring service will be connecting to
cluster_id	string	ID To identify current cluster
sasl_user	string	Username for SASL authentication with a Kafka broker
sasl_password	string	Password for SASL authentication with a Kafka broker

Optional parameters

There are no optional parameters.

Substitute parameters

There are no substitute parameters.

Allowed users

The following users are allowed to run this job:

root

Allowed groups

The following groups are allowed to run this job:

root

exaadm

exadbadm

Examples

The following examples show how to run this job in a Python program using XML-RPC or on the command line using confd_client.

Python using XML-RPC

conn.job_exec('monitoring_start', {'params': {'broker': 'test.exasol.com:9090', 'cluster_id': '98f267a3', 'sasl_user': 'name', 'sasl_password': 'password'}})

Command line using confd_client

confd_client monitoring_start broker: test.exasol.com:9090 cluster_id: 98f267a3 sasl_user: name sasl_password: password