Preface
RulePoint
RulePoint Concepts
- RulePoint Concepts Overview
- Understanding RulePoint Entities
Using RulePoint
RulePoint Objects
- RulePoint Objects Overview
- State of RulePoint Objects
Working with Topics
Working with Connections
Working with Sources
Working with Responders
Working with Responses
Working with Watchlists
Working with Analytics
- Analytics Overview
- Analytic Types
- Creating an Analytic
- Copying an Analytic
- Editing an Analytic
- Deleting an Analytic
- Viewing Related Objects
- Predefined Analytics
  - abs
  - average
  - ceil
  - charat
  - clean
  - compareto
  - concat
  - confidence
  - correlation
  - count
  - current
  - date
  - datedifference
  - endswith
  - even
  - floor
  - getcurrentdate
  - getdatefrommillis
  - getdateinmillis
  - geodistance
  - geoinbound
  - geoinsidearea
  - geointersect
  - geooutbound
  - geooutsidearea
  - geopassthru
  - indexof
  - integer
  - isblank
  - isholiday
  - isnum
  - istext
  - isweekday
  - isweekend
  - large
  - list2vars
  - lower
  - max
  - min
  - mod
  - mode
  - mround
  - odd
  - parse
  - past
  - percentile
  - power
  - proper
  - range
  - regex
  - replace
  - round
  - rounddown
  - roundup
  - sign
  - small
  - startswith
  - stdev
  - stringequals
  - stringindexof
  - stringlastindexof
  - stringlength
  - substring
  - sum
  - trim
  - truncate
  - upper
  - xpath
- Predefined Operators
  - contains
  - equalsSet
  - has
  - in
  - match
  - notMatch
  - search
  - unique
  - group by
  - distinct
  - unmatched
- Using the distinct, group by, and ummatched Filters
DRQL
Working with Rules
Working with Alerts
Setting Access Controls
Troubleshooting RulePoint Issues
Connecting to an Ultra Messaging Application
Creating an Ultra Messaging JMS Source

User Guide

6.2
- 6.1.2
- 6.1

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Source Overview

Sources connect to external systems to fetch data. The sources convert the fetched data into events. The events are published on topics.

You can configure a source through the RulePoint web user interface. RulePoint can receive data pushed from sources or it can pull data from sources on a scheduled basis. Supported services include SQL, text files, web pages, and RSS feeds.

Schedulable Sources: Schedulable sources enable you to generate events on a schedule that you set, such as one time every 30 minutes. An example of a schedulable source service is an RSS or Atom News Reader service that extracts events from an RSS news feed.
The schedulable sources pull the data into RulePoint from the outside world. In case of a failover to back up, pull sources start from where they left off using the run-time database parameters.
Listener Sources: Listener sources generate events at any time based on particular occurrences, not on a scheduled basis. An example of a listener source service is an Instant Messaging service. An Instant Messaging service listens for instant messages that meet certain criteria and then publishes an event on receiving a matching message.
The listener source service pushes the data into RulePoint through an external source. In case of a failover to the secondary, push sources continue to receive messages that are not explicitly acknowledged.

Prerequisites for Sources

Before you create a source, ensure to create a topic and a connection for the source based on the requirements.

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Source Overview

Prerequisites for Sources