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Workbench Kibana Application Type
General Section
Editable Option
Workbench Application Name
Default Values: "Workbench_Kibana_Primary"
Valid Values: Any String name (i.e. "WB_Kibana_Pri")
Changes Take Effect: Immediately
Description: The name of the Workbench Kibana application
Read Only Options
Workbench Application Type
Default Values: Workbench Kibana
Valid Values: Valid Workbench Application Type
Changes Take Effect: After Workbench Kibana application (i.e. "WB_Kibana_Primary") startup
Description: Workbench Application Type
Workbench Version
Default Values: "9.x.xxx.xx"
Valid Values: WB Version
Changes Take Effect: After Workbench Kibana application (i.e. "WB_Kibana_Primary") startup
Description: The Workbench Application Version
Associated Workbench Agent Application
Default Values: "WB_Kibana_Primary"
Valid Values: Name of associated Workbench Agent application
Changes Take Effect: After Workbench Kibana application (i.e. "WB_Kibana_Primary") startup
Description: The name of the Workbench Agent associated with this application/host
Data-Center
Default Values: default
Valid Values: Read-Only
Changes Take Effect: After Workbench Kibana application (i.e. "WB_Kibana_Primary") startup
Description: The name of the Data-Centre associated with this application; a prepatory setting that will evolve in WB 9.x
Host Name
Default Values: Hostname of the Workbench Kibana application associated host (i.e. "LAB-WB-VM1")
Valid Values: Valid Hostname
Changes Take Effect: After Workbench Kibana application (i.e. "WB_Kibana_Primary") startup
Description: The Hostname of the host where this Workbench Kibana application is running
Host IP Address
Default Values: IP Address of the Workbench Kibana application associated host (i.e. "10.20.30.40")
Valid Values: Valid IP address
Changes Take Effect: After Workbench Kibana application (i.e. "WB_Kibana_Primary") startup
Description: The IPv4 Address of the host where this Workbench Kibana application is running
Host Time-Zone
Default Values: Time-Zone of the Workbench Kibana application associated host (i.e. "Europe/London")
Valid Values: Valid Host Time-Zone
Changes Take Effect: After Workbench Kibana application (i.e. "WB_Kibana_Primary") startup
Description: The Time-Zone of the host where this Workbench Kibana application is running
Deployment Section
Read Only Options
Installation Directory
Default Values: "<WORKBENCH_HOME>\Kibana"
Valid Values: Valid Path (i.e. C:\Program Files\Workbench_9.x.xxx.xx\Kibana")
Changes Take Effect: After Workbench Kibana application (i.e. "WB_Kibana_Primary") startup
Description: Absolute path of the folder where this application is installed
Configuration Directory
Default Values: "<WORKBENCH_HOME>\Kibana\config"
Valid Values: Valid Path (i.e. C:\Program Files\Workbench_9.x.xxx.xx\Kibana\config")
Changes Take Effect: After Workbench Kibana application (i.e. "WB_Kibana_Primary") startup
Description: Absolute path of the folder where the configuration file of this application is located
Logging Section
Editable Options
Log File Folder
Default Values: "<WORKBENCH_HOME>\Kibana\logs\kibana.log"
Valid Values: Valid folder path
Changes Take Effect: After Workbench Kibana application (i.e. "WB_Kibana_Primary") restart
Description: Absolute path of the log file location
Verbose Log
Default Values: False
Valid Values: True, False
Changes Take Effect: After Workbench Kibana application (i.e. "WB_Kibana_Primary") restart
Description: Set the value of this setting to true to log all events, including system usage information and all requests.
Silent Log
Default Values: False
Valid Values: True, False
Changes Take Effect: After Workbench Kibana application (i.e. "WB_Kibana_Primary") restart
Description: Set the value of this setting to true to suppress all logging output.
Quiet Log
Default Values: False
Valid Values: True, False
Changes Take Effect: After Workbench Kibana application (i.e. "WB_Kibana_Primary") restart
Description: Set the value of this setting to true to suppress all logging output other than error messages.
- Only enabled 1 of the "Verbose Log", "Quiet Log" or "Silent Log" options above; else the Workbench Kibana component could fail to start.
- Kibana does not provide Kibana log file rotation.
- Therefore please monitor/manage this Kibana log file accordingly to ensure it does not grow indefinitely and negatively impact the host and/or its applications
Workbench Kibana Identifiers
Editable Options
HTTP Port
Default Values:
- For WB 9.0 to 9.2 the default port is: 8181 (or the port number given at custom installation time)
- For WB 9.3 the default port is: 8182 (or the port number given at custom installation time)
Valid Values: Valid free port integer
Changes Take Effect: After Workbench Kibana application (i.e. "WB_Kibana_Primary") restart
Description:
- For WB 9.0 to 9.2 - the main UI 8181 port for incoming HTTP Chrome Browser requests.
- For WB 9.3 - changed to 8182 by default
- Restart of Workbench Kibana and Workbench Heartbeat is required when changing this option.
- The new Workbench URL would be http://<WB_Primary_Host>:<THE_NEW_HTTP_PORT>.
Workbench Elasticsearch Host
Default Values: "http://<HOSTNAME>:9200 (i.e. "http://MY-WB-VM:9200")
Valid Values: Valid Elasticsearch Hostname and Port)
Changes Take Effect: After Workbench Kibana application (i.e. "WB_Kibana_Primary") restart
Description: IPv4 address of the host where Elasticsearch (to which Kibana is going to connect) is running
Read Only Options
Host Name
Default Values: Hostname of the Workbench Kibana application associated host (i.e. "LAB-WB-VM1")
Valid Values: Valid Hostname
Changes Take Effect: After Workbench Kibana application (i.e. "WB_Kibana_Primary") startup
Description: The Hostname of the host where this Workbench Kibana application is running.