Installation

The audit consumer can be installed using the Runtime zip. After unpacking the Runtime zip, the audit consumer can be found in the Services\blueriq-audit-consumer folder. The audit consumer is runnable by executing the jar file with java.

Alternatively, you can install the audit consumer on of the supported platforms of Blueriq. The supported platforms for the audit consumer match the ones for the Runtime. The installation procedure also resembles the ones for the Runtime, basically it is deploying the WAR, configure a config location and the suitable JDBC driver. See Installing Runtime for details on each specific platform.

Although it is possible to deploy the Audit Consumer in the same JVM as the Blueriq Runtime, we recommend, at least for acceptance and production environments, to deploy it on its own JVM or depending on the throughput of the application, on its own server.

System requirements

Minimal

2 CPU cores
256 MB Heap

Configuration

The audit consumer is required by the Audit component, so when this component is used the following needs to be configured first.

External config location

For supplying configuration from an external location you need to configure the spring.config.additional-location for the application. See the Config location section for your application platform on the page Installing Runtime. In the documentation below, the <service> is audit:consumer, the <datasource-name> is audit-sql-store and the configuration YAML is application.yml.

JNDI

If you would like to use JNDI to configure your datasource, replace the blueriq.audit.consumer.datasource section in the application.yml described above with the following:

blueriq:
  audit:
    consumer:
      datasource:
        audit-sql-store:               
			jndi-name: java:jboss/datasources/auditConsumerSqlStoreJndiName

RabbitMQ configuration

For the audit consumer to work, rabbit mq needs to be configured in blueriq-audit-consumer.yml. This file is placed in the location the configuration folder where you install the audit consumer.

blueriq:
  audit:
    consumer:
      rabbitmq:
        host: ---
        port: ---
        virtualHost: ---
        username: ---
        password: ---
        ssl:
          enabled: ---
        queueNames: ---
		errorExchange: ---	
		# From blueriq version 16.9 it is possible to declare multiple hosts (RabbitMQ Cluster)
        addresses: localhost:30012,otherhost:25102

The configured queue should be bound to the exchange where the Audit component writes its messages to.