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Traffic source management

Seer Box can receive HTTP traffic from a variety of sources (including web servers, load balancers, reverse proxies, ADC, etc) using different configurable formats or even creating a custom format directly from Seer Box itself. This feature allows the system to dynamically adapt to different sources, providing greater versatility.

You will be able to choose between different types of sources: some of them will require a specific configuration to be able to send traffic to Seer Box. See the Log Sources and Formats section for more details.

Create a traffic source​

Creating a traffic source is allowed only for users in the admins group or users who belong to a group with permissions related to traffic source management (Handle traffic sources).

From Seer Box web interface​

  1. Access the Settings - Traffic Sources section: in this page you can view the list of already created traffic sources. Clicking on each source will display detailed information about it.

  2. Click on the Create traffic source button in the upper right corner of the page.

  3. Enter data:

    • Enable Traffic Source - a switch to enable or disable the listening interface.
    • Name - the name of the traffic source. It must be different from existing sources.
    • Description - description useful to provide additional information about the source.
    • Log type - log format of the source. See Log sources and formats section for more details.

  4. Click on the Save button in the upper right corner of the page.

The new traffic source will appear on the summary page. Clicking on the source will display the enabled port for the listening interface (Listener port), which is useful for configuring traffic forwarding.

Edit a traffic source​

Editing a traffic source is allowed only for users in the admins group or users who belong to a group with permissions related to traffic source management (Handle traffic sources).

From Seer Box web interface​

  1. Access the Settings - Traffic Sources section: in this page you can view the list of already created traffic sources. Clicking on each source will display detailed information about it.

  2. Click on the Edit button with a pencil icon located on the right end of the source you want to edit.

  3. Edit the chosen fields.

  4. Click on the Save button in the upper right corner of the page.

Delete a traffic source​

Deleting a traffic source is allowed only for users in the admins group or users who belong to a group with permissions related to traffic source management (Handle traffic sources).

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Deleting a traffic source is an irreversible operation: once done it is necessary to repeat the creation operation to restore the item.

If you want to disable the listening interface without deleting the configuration, it is enough to modify the source by unchecking the Enable Traffic Source switch.

From Seer Box web interface​

  1. Access the Settings - Traffic Sources section: in this page you can view the list of already created traffic sources. Clicking on each source will display detailed information about it.

  2. Select one or more traffic sources to delete by clicking on the checkbox located at the left end of each source.

  3. As soon as at least one item is selected, the Delete button with a trashcan icon appears in the upper right corner of the source list.

  4. Clicking this button displays a modal summarizing the operation. Click the Confirm button to confirm.