About Managing Real-Time Data
Once you have brought real-time data into Tracking Server, you can manage it using Tracking Server Manager.
Some typical real-time data management activites are listed here to give you an idea of the variety of things that can be done within Tracking Server:
- Monitoring real-time connections
- Managing data links
- Editing message definitions
- Editing tracking service properties
- Applying actions to message definitions
- Setting and saving error logging options
Tracking Server Manager serves as the control center for the tracking message server, where you can customize settings to meet your needs. All communication in the tracking message server takes place in the form of messages. Tracking Server Manager communicates your user input to the tracking message server through messages. Tracking Server Manager also obtains information about the current state of the tracking message server through data messages in order to display it to you.
Messages
There are four types of messages in the tracking message server:
- Command messages control and configure items within the tracking message server.
- Command response messages provide a way for the server control to communicate the results of a command message.
- Status messages provide information on connections.
- Data messages contain information relating to an event. Data link messages contain this information, which is delivered to clients as events.
Data messages coming into Tracking Server must have a format that matches a message definition in order to be processed.