Agent Configuration Reference

The settings in local.cfg are common to all types of agents (filesystem scanner, SQL scanner, etc).

Local.cfg is a JSON file, structured as a ‘dictionary’ at the top level. (I.e, the top level brackets are always {}). Sections inside the top dictionary are also dictionaries in turn. Typical settings for an agent are as follows:

{
    "agent" : {
        "server" : "127.0.0.1"
    },
  
   "logging" : {
        "master_level"  : "DEBUG",
        "file_enable"   : false,
        "file_level"    : "DEBUG",
        "syslog_enable" : false,
        "syslog_addr"   : "/dev/log",
        "1_syslog_addr" : "localhost:514",
        "syslog_facility"   : "daemon",
        "syslog_severity"   : "debug"
    },

    "dirs" : {
        "log" : "",
        "tmp" : "",
        "data" : ""
    }

}

Common Agent Settings

“server”

Setting address of the Quasar server.

This can be an IP address or a fully-qualified DNS name.

Logging Settings

“master_level”

Setting logging level of scanning process.

These track UNIX SYSLOG log levels – DEBUG, INFO, NOTE, WARN, ERROR, CRIT

NOTE: the syslog_ settings only apply to Linux agents.

Directory Settings

Default directory locations are displayed by the Quasar agent on startup – to console if in foreground mode, and/or to the Windows event log or Linux syslog if in service mode.

The dirs section can be used to override default directory locations if the need arises.