IBM Enterprise Console manual Events Listing, Event Class Structure, nwmsgversion, nwmsgid

The following example shows a formatted IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console event derived from an error message issued by the NetWare Directory Service (DS):

7-16-98 5:08:46 pm:DS-5.73-12 Severity=10 Locus=2 Class=5 Synthetic Time is being issued on partition “NOVELL_TREE.”

For details about format files, see “Format File” on page 17.

Events Listing

The tables in the next section show the class names and severities of all events defined for the NetWare log file adapter. You can use this information to get a sense of how NetWare events are mapped to IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console events and to determine whether you want to make any changes. The events are defined in the BAROC file, which must be imported into the rule base. See the IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console Rule Builder’s Guide for more information about customizing the BAROC file.

Event Class Structure

Event classes are defined hierarchically, with child classes inheriting attribute value defaults from the parent. The NetWare server event classes follow a simple hierarchy. The adapter fills in the following attribute default values, as shown in the following table. The attributes are used in event group filters.

Attribute

source

sub_source

Default Value

NW4

NW4

When an event from the SYS$LOG.ERR file is sent, the sub_source attribute is set to the module that logged the event (for example, DS or SERVER). The default event classes define the following attributes:

nw_msg_version

This is the version of the module (sub_source) that is logging the message, for example, 4.10, 1.0, and so on.

nw_msg_id

This is an integer value specifying the message ID. A message ID is unique within each sub_source.

alert_severity

Specified as an integer from zero (0) to 6, this value indicates the severity level defined by NetWare. The mapping between the NetWare alert_severity and IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console severity level is defined in the following table.

	Alert Severity	Definition	Severity Level
0	(Informational)	Counters or gauges reached	HARMLESS
		thresholds.
1	(Warning)	Configuration errors, and so	WARNING
		on. No damage.
2	(Recoverable)	Hot Fix, and so on.	MINOR
		Workaround made.
3	(Critical)	Disk Mirror failure, and so	CRITICAL
		on. Fix attempted.

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