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This process requires the following steps:
- mapping of the pinger database fields to xml topology elements
- processing of the above into a single 'store' file that contains a snapshot of the topology (a list of nodes in our case for pinger)
- deployment and configuration of the topology service
- loading of the 'store' file into the topology service
- testing of the topology service
Field mapping
Unfortunately, there are various nuances with the way that the nodedetails table is formatted. Most of the mappings and regex's are to deal with these 'features'.
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