Custom Formatter DLL

The special Formatter directive, as documented, extends the range of messages that the log file monitor can read, to include binary data or highly unstructured data. This option requires a custom DLL to install at the agent site. The DLL reads data from the log file and provides special formatting. 

The formatting function, provided by the DLL, is completely arbitrary and might consist of converting binary data to text, mapping field values to new values, joining lines, deduplicating lines, or other arbitrary processing that might be necessary to convert the log data into a syslog message. Applications of this DLL include Exchange monitoring, custom monitoring of SAP files, and monitoring of pseudo-binary log files. For more information, contact BMC Support.