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TCP data input configuration fields

Description of the fields on the TCP data input configuration form.

Basic configuration

Field	Description
Name	Name of the new data input. This field is required.
Description	Description of the data input.
Port	The port for the MID Server. Select a unique port from the array. The placeholder shows the range of ports from which to choose. Make sure that your organization’s security team opens the selected port. This field is required.
MID	The MID Server to which the logs are streamed. Note: You can select only MID Servers with log ingestion capability that support basic authentication. MID Servers that support mTLS are not listed. The default maximum number of data inputs streaming logs to a single MID Server is 10. You can modify this number in the MID Server properties. This field is required.
Service instance	The service instance to which to bind the log data. This field is required.Note: If no relevant service instance exists, Create an service instance and add CIs to it. Set the status of the new service instance to Operational.

The following fields show read-only information:

Field	Description
Status	Status of the data input.
Transport	Protocol used to send the log data.Rsyslog and Splunk send data using the TCP protocol.
Sources count	The number of log sources this data input has created.
Disabled since	The time when the data input stopped or failed.
Last log time	The time when the last log streamed in the data input.
Error message	The streaming error.This field is populated automatically. It displays only when a streaming error has occurred.

Field	Description	Default value
Use SSL/TLS	Option to use SSL/TLS.
Look up hostnames	Option to perform DNS lookup to resolve IPs to hostnames.	false
Boss thread count	The number of threads that manage connections.	1
Worker thread count	The number of threads that handle incoming data.	4
Read timeout seconds	The timeout in seconds since the last read. When the timeout expires, the system closes the channel.	30
Default timezone	The default time zone of events. The system uses this default when the log does not specify a time zone.	GMT
Sub sample drop ratio	The ratio of events to drop.	-1
Sub sample receive ratio	The ratio of events to receive.	-1
Max length in bytes	The maximum length of log messages in bytes.	32766
Character encoding	The character encoding for this data input.	UTF-8
Drop if queue is full	Option to discard logs if there is a load on the MID Server.
Line breaker delimiters	The line break character separating the raw log lines.Splitting values must be separated by a comma followed by a space: ", ". For example: "\\r, \\n, , splitHere, \#".