POS Transaction Analyzer User and Installation Guide, SST Version 1.2

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POSLOGGER Configuration Parameters
Section: Data Source Configuration
Parameter Description
Name Name of the database
User Name Name of the database user
Password Database password
Use Credential Enabled Whether credentials are to be used or not
Section: Operational Parameters
Parameter Description
Fraction Time Logging
Enabled
Fraction time (milliseconds) in the database.
Default: 0
Log Level Log level settings for problem tracing.
Valid values:
• 1: Log all info
• 2: Log warnings
• 3: Log errors
• 4: Log fatal
Default: “1”
Log Error to Event Log Logs error messages to windows event viewer. The default value is false (0-false/1-
true).
Default: 0
Maximum Number of Failure The Maximum Number Of Failure parameter shutdown the service after configured
number of failures (in this case, NT service manager will not start the service). If this
parameter is 0 then service never shutdown except abnormal termination/kill
/exception (in this case NT service manager starts the service after configured time in
service’s recovery properties).
Default: 0
Use LocalTime Enabled Use local time for the time fields in the Transaction table. If set to 1, the entryTime
and transactionTime columns in TRANSACTION table are inserted as LCT values. It is
recommended not to set this flag and use the timestamps in UTC format.
Default: 0
Maximum Requested
Transactions
Maximum requested transactions from the backend. If set, the front-end sends the
specified number to the backend for every request and the backend will sends only
that many number of transactions in reply and then send end-of-data. If set to 0 then
the backend sends all the latest transactions recorded from the given RBA and then
send end-of-data.
Default: 0
Transaction Request Time
(secs)
Time Interval in seconds after which the request for transactions will be send again.
Default: 30
Transactions Request Timeout
(secs)
Time Interval in seconds after which the request for transactions will timeout.
Default: 30
Restart after failure (secs) The parameter retries the failed operation after configured time. For example, if the
service fails to connect to SQL database then it won’t try to connect to the database
in a loop but wait as per this configured time before trying again.
Default: 60
Maximum Log File Length
(Kb)
Log File Length size in Kb.
Default: 4
Maximum Number of Log
File
Maximum number of log files.
Default: 5
Log Bad Transactions in File
Enabled
Enable/disable logging of bad transactions in a log file.
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