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Overview

Manage a Sawmills Pipeline

  1. Log in to the Sawmills dashboard.
  2. Navigate to Pipeline Mangement.
  3. Click on an existing pipeline to navigate to that pipeline’s management page.
The Pipeline page consists of three main areas:
  1. Pipeline Toolbar
    • Pipeline Name Name of this Pipeline
    • Live/Draft Switches between “Edit” and “Live View” modes.
    • Settings Opens a dialog where you can either edit or delete a Pipeline ‘s Name and optional Description or Delete the Pipeline
    • Activity Log Opens a dialog where you can view an Audit Trail of all activity from a human in regards to this Pipeline. Each entry has a button on the right that displays changes made to this pipeline.
    • Deployement Enables you to deploy this Pipeline to one or more Controllers
  2. Pipeline Flow Presents a visual depiction of the pipeline (Sources, Processors and Destinations). When in “Live” mode, it is read only. When in “Draft” mode, you can edit the Pipeline’s Source, Processors and Destinations.

Editing a Pipeline Source

To edit a Pipeline’s Source

  1. Set the Live/Draft Toggle to Draft
  2. Open the pipeline’s source dialog
    • When adding a new pipeline source, click on the `+’ icon located under a last Source in the diagram.
    • When editing an existing pipeline source, click on the source icon itself.
For specifics on a Pipeline Source’s configuration, refer to the source type’s configurations. For a list of supported sources, refer to Pipeline Sources

Editing a Pipeline Destination

To edit a Pipeline’s Destination

  1. Set the Live/Draft Toggle to Draft
  2. Open the pipeline’s destination dialog
    • When adding a new pipeline destination, click on the `+’ icon located under a last destination in the diagram.
    • When editing an existing pipeline destination, click on the destination icon itself.
For specifics on a Pipeline Destination’s configuration, refer to the destination type’s configurations. For a list of supported destinations, refer to Pipeline Destinations
After you save your updates, you must redeploy the pipeline to all associated collectors for your changes to take effect.