Creating a new profile

To create a new profile, navigate to the Profiles tab/page of the web interface, and then proceed with the following steps:

  1. Click the add (+) icon.

  2. Fill in the fields of the New Profile form with the following details:

    • A name for the profile

    • The in/listening port packets must be received from exporters on

    • The out/sending port to use for forwarding packets to collectors

  3. Click the Save button to save the profile configuration.

Once created, new profiles will be added to the main Profiles list/table and can be further configured at a later time.

Note

The option to automatically add exporters to the profile’s in port can be used to automatically include new exporters to the profile after they start sending packets/flows to the Plixer Replicator appliance. To use multiple profiles to manage streams from different exporters, leave this option unchecked/disabled.

Creating new profiles via CLI

New profiles can also be created from the Plixer Replicator interactive prompt as follows:

  1. SSH to the Plixer Replicator appliance as the replicator user and launch the interactive CLI.

  2. Enter the following command at the REPLICATOR> prompt:

    profile add [PROFILE_NAME] [IN_PORT] [OUT_PORT]

This will create a new profile called PROFILE_NAME with the specified in and out ports.

Deleting profiles

Profiles can be permanently deleted from either the main Profiles tab/page of the web interface or the profile’s edit/details page.

To delete a profile via the interactive REPLICATOR> prompt instead, use the following command:

REPLICATOR> profile remove [PROFILE_NAME]

Note

Profiles can also be temporarily disabled and later re-enabled from the profile’s edit/details page.