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Event Notifier Enabled

Select this check box to enable event notification. Note, undirected events are not saved by the system, and can therefore not be retrieved.

Notifier Setup

A Notifier is the a target where event messages, configured in the Event Setup, are sent. For instance, to a database table, a log file, or to the System Log.

The overall appearance of the message string is also defined in this tab.

Event Setup

In the Event Setup tab, events to catch are defined. If necessary, the message string defined in the Notifier Setup is also modified.

Notification Type

Select the output type for the notification in this drop-down - list. See the detailed descriptions of the notification types in the section below, Notification Type Configurations.

Duplicate Suppression (sec)

Enter the number of seconds during which an identical event is suppressed from being logged. Default The default value is 0.

Base Configuration

The Base Configuration settings includes include everything needed for the selected Notification Type, such as the location of a log file, database profile, or credentials, etc. For further information see the section below, Notification Type Configurations.

Target Field Configuration

The Target Field Configuration settings are used for constructing the content of the notification, and they vary depending on which Notification Type you have selected. See the section below, Target Field Configuration.

Database

The name of the database in which the table resides. Databases are defined in the Database profileprofile configuration.

SQL Statement

Type in any SQL statement, using '?' for variables which that are to be mapped against event fields in the Event Setup tab. Trailing semicolons are not used. In the case of running several statements, they must be embedded in a block.

Directory

The path to the directory where the file in which events are to be logged resides.

Filename

The name of the file in which events are to be logged. In case the file does not exist, it will be created when the first message for the specific event map arrives. New messages are appended.

Size

The maximum size of the file. When this parameter is exceeded, the existing file is renamed and a new one is created upon the arrival of the next event.

The old file will receive an extension to the file name, according to <date_time_milliseconds_timezone>.

Time

The maximum lifetime of a file before it is rotated. When this parameter is exceeded, the existing file is renamed and a new one is created upon the arrival of the next event.

If the time is set to rotate every:

• hour, rotation is made at the first full-hour shift that which is xx:59.

• 2 hours, rotation is made in predefined two-hour intervals (0,2,4...22) when turning to the next full hour. For example after 01:59.

• 3 hours, rotation is made in predefined three-hour intervals (0,3,6, ...21) when turning to the next full hour. For example after 02:59.

• 4 hours, rotation is made in predefined four-hour intervals (0,4,8, ...20) when turning to the next full hour. For example after 03:59.

• 6 hours, rotation is made in predefined six-hour intervals (0,6,12 ...21) when turning to the next full hour. For example after 05:59.

• 8 hours, rotation is made in predefined eight-hour intervals (0,8,16) when turning to the next full hour. For example after 07:59.

• 12 hours, rotation is made at high noon and at midnight.

• day, rotation is made at midnight.

• week, rotation will be done at midnight at the last day of the week.

• month, rotation will be done at midnight at the last day of the month.

The old file will receive an extension to the file name, according to <date_time_milliseconds_timezone>.

If both Size and Time are set, both behaviors apply.

Separator

Indicates how logged events are separated from one another. Valid options are:

• Linefeed

• CR + LF (Carriage return + Linefeed)

• Comma

• Colon

• (None)

Log Line

Text to go into the log file.

For further information, see the section below, Target Field Configuration.

The label or name to be displayed in the Sender of the mail. The text in the Sender field will not replace the value of the platform.conf property that is set in mz.notifier.mailfrom.

For further information about how to obtain the text, see the section below, Target Field Configuration.

Recipient

Mail address to one or several recipients. Use a comma to separate, if several. Select Add to select mail addresses, configured for available users.

For further information about how to obtain the text, see the section below, Target Field Configuration.

Subject

The subject/heading of the mail. If Event Contents is selected, newlines will be replaced with spaces to make the subject readable. If the string exceeds 100 characters, it is truncated.

For further information about how to obtain the text, see the section below, Target Field Configuration.

Message

The body of the mail message.

For further information about how to obtain the text, see the section below, Target Field Configuration.

IP Address

The IP address of the target host.

Port

The port on the target host defined for the SNMP communication.

Community

The community name string used for the authentication process.

Version

A list containing the supported SNMP versions.

User Message

A string which will be that is sent out as SNMP traps.

For further information about how to obtain the text, see the section below, Target Field Configuration.

The Filter table enables you to configure the event types to catch. For each event type, a filter may be defined to allow, for instance, a specific Workflow and two specific event severities to pass.

Besides filtering on existing values (for instance Workflow name) it is possible to filter using regular expressions and hard coded strings. Regular expressions according to Java syntax applies. For further information see http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html

The contents of this column varies depending on the selected event type. For further information about different events, see the section below, Event Fields.

Note that only fields of string type are visible.

The filtering criteria that defines what events to catch. Double-clicking a cell opens the Edit Match Value dialog box, from which you select a value.

However, these values are only suggestions. You can also use hard coded strings and regular expressions.

The default value for each of the components is All.

States the Notifier parameter available in the Notifier Setup tab.

If a specific parameter has more than one variable, it will claim one line per variable.