.. index:: collector
Collector is an application that runs under Apache using mod-python. Its task is accepting crash reports from remote clients and saving them in a place and format usable by further applications.
Raw crashes are accepted via HTTP POST. The form data from the POST is then arranged into a JSON and saved into the local file system. The collector is responsible for assigning an ooid? (Our Own ID) to the crash. It also assigns a Throttle? value which determines if the crash is eventually to go into the relational database.
Should the saving to a local file system fail, there is a fallback storage mechanism. A second file system can be configured to take the failed saves. This file system would likely be an NFS mounted file system.
After a crash is saved, there is an app called :ref:`crashmover-chapter` that will transfer the crashes to HBase.
Like all the Socorro applications, the configuration is actually executable Python code. Two configuration files are relevant for collector
- Copy
.../scripts/config/commonconfig.py.distto .../config/commonconfig.py. This configuration file contains constants used by many of the Socorro applications. - Copy
.../scripts/config/collectorconfig.py.distto.../config/collectorconfig.py
There are two constants in '.../scripts/config/commonconfig.py' of interest to collector: jsonFileSuffix, and dumpFileSuffix. Other constants in this file are ignored.
To setup the common configuration, see :ref:`commonconfig-chapter`.
collectorconfig.py has several options to adjust how files are stored: