An Event Category is defined from the Edit menu in the Event Notification configuration. The Event Category is used to send any kind of information to a Column, as opposed to a direct mapping of a MIM resource. The Event Category name is a string that is used as an argument in the dispatchMessage APL function to route messages to a Column.

The Event Category dialog, where a user-defined string is specified to be used as the Name for the Category field in an event

When the Event Category is defined it is mapped against a Match Value in the Event setup tab. Then the defined Event Category is used as a parameter in the APL code with the dispatchMessage function.

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