File Forwarder advanced settings

You can use the following advanced settings to fine tune File Forwarder sources.

Parameter	Default value	Description
File stale duration (minutes)	1440	In Continuous mode, how many minutes to keep monitoring a file that has not changed, before dropping it. The default value is one day. Select zero to keep monitoring files indefinitely.
Scan folder interval (seconds)	300	How often to scan the folder when File Monitor Type is Folder Scanning.
File parser	One line per event Multiple lines per event	How to read lines in the files.
Filter to accept lines		How many lines a mask or filter accepts lines to process. You can select `*` (many chars) `?` (one char), `#` (a number), or a regex.
Multiple lines per event
Filter to start a multiline block		A mask or filter finds the first line to process in multilink. You can select `*` (many chars) `?` (one char), `#` (a number), or a regex.
Filter to end a multiline block		A mask or filter finds the last line to process in multiline. You can select `*` (many chars) `?` (one char), `#` (a number), or a regex.
Include the start and end lines of a multiline block		You can include or exclude the first (header) and last (footer) lines of a block.
BlockTrimLines		Trims the lines before adding to the block separated by a space.
File
Filename pattern		A mask or filter to categorize files into this file class. You can select `*` (many chars) `?` (one char), `#` (a number), or a regex.
File_format		The AgentLogFormat payload header field. If you don't want to include this field, leave the value empty.
File_fldList		The CSV fields to include in the payload. Use `#FIELDS` to grab first line in the file that starts with #Fields. Use `#HDL_LINES` to grab the list of fields from file header.
File_fldListPrefix		The field list line prefix.
File_fldListSep		The field list separator handles `\t`, `XML`, `KEYED (CSV)`, or `NCSA`.