Attribute Name

Contents

 

 

status

The status of an event. It is initially set to OPEN or to a default

 

value specified by the event class. Possible values during an event

 

lifetime are as follows:

 

ACK

An administrator or rule has acknowledged the event.

 

CLOSED

 

 

An administrator or rule has fixed the problem that was

 

 

reported by the event. An event adapter can also send an

 

 

event with a status of CLOSED to indicate that a

 

 

previously received event of the specified class should

 

 

have its status changed to CLOSED; the previously

 

 

received event to be closed is the most recent duplicate of

 

 

the same event. The event being sent with a CLOSED

 

 

status is dropped and not stored in the event database.

 

custom_status

 

 

A status that has been added to the STATUS enumeration

 

 

for site-specific purposes. The STATUS enumeration is

 

 

defined in the root.baroc file. To add a new status, edit this

 

 

file, recompile the rule base, and restart the event server.

 

OPEN

The event has been received by the event server, but no

 

 

administrator or rule has acknowledged it.

 

RESPONSE

 

 

A rule has automatically responded to the event. This

 

 

status is assigned a rule language predicate. It is not

 

 

available from an event console.

 

The database stores the status as a number. This mapping is defined

 

in the root.baroc rule base file and is set for the event server default

 

status as follows: zero (0) for OPEN, 10 for RESPONSE, 20 for ACK,

 

30 for CLOSED.

 

 

sub_origin

A further categorization of the origin. This attribute is optional.

 

 

sub_source

A further categorization of the source. This attribute is optional.

 

 

 

The adapter uses the following attributes to uniquely identify an event:

vdate_reception

vevent_handle

vserver_handle

Adapter Files

An adapter uses various files for its operations. The following table provides a brief description of the types of files that can be used. Subsequent sections discuss some of the more common files you might need to view or modify for configuration or troubleshooting purposes. See Appendix A, “Files Shipped with Adapters” on page 141 for detailed information about which files are shipped with particular adapters.

File Type

Description

 

 

Basic recorder of objects in C

Defines event classes to the event server; must be

(BAROC)

part of the rule base.

 

 

Cache

Stores buffered events.

 

 

Class definition statement (CDS)

Defines event class definitions to the adapter.

 

 

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