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1. Under Advanced Settings, click File Filters. 
   The File Filters definitions open.
2. In Include Files, type the names of the files to include in the scan, separated by commas.
3. In Exclude Files, type the names of the files to exclude from the scan, separated by commas.
4. In Subdirectories levels to scan, select Unlimited or a number from 1 to 10. 

Defining the Scan Method

By default, during scanning, the automatic patterns that are matched to the logs are taken from an existing configuration that is based on log names, log content, and an automatic patterns generator. You can select to activate all these mechanisms (the defalut), or select the mechanisms to use.

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1. Under Advanced Settings, click Scan Method. 
   The Scan Method options open.
2. Select one of the following options:
   Use existing configuration (file names and content) and automatic matching (the default) - select  – Select this option to try and match patterns to detected logs by matching existing logs log patterns , logs templates and also automatically assignment of patterns in and log templates. In case no match was is detected, runs automatic assignment of patterns. This method captures all readable files during scanning; however, however this it is the slowest onemethod.
   Use existing configuration (file names and content) - select  – Select this option to try and match patterns to detected logs by matching existing logs log patterns and logs log templates. Files for which no existing log patterns or templates were are matched will are not be captured.
   Use existing configuration (file names only) - select  – Select this option to try and match patterns by logs log templates only. Files for which no templates were are matched will are not be captured. 

Defining File Name Patterns

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1. Under Advanced Settings, click Files Name Pattern. 
   The Files Name Pattern options open.
2. Select one of the following options:
   Unite files with similar names (apply name pattern automatically) (the default) - all – All files with similar names (such as rotating files, files with date suffixes, and files with numerical prefixes) will be captured as a single log type using a general name pattern.
   Unite files with similar suffix (apply name pattern only at the end of the file name) - all – All files with similar name suffixes (such as rotating files, files with date suffixes) will be captured as a single log type using a general name pattern.
   Capture each file separately (without name pattern) - a – A log type will be created for each file.

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1. Under Advanced Settings, click Log Settings. 
   The Log Settings open.
2. Clear the Use indexing checkbox to prevent XpoLog from indexing the incoming log files.
3. Clear the Generate analytics data checkbox to prevent XpoLog from performing Analytics on the incoming log files.