Universal Messages attributes

Universal Messages attributes keep track of the messages that have been generated through a situation or policy action command. The Universal Message Console view uses these attributes, and they can be used to create situations.

Category The category name that was given for the message, such as 'Information' or 'SiteCritical'.

Message Severity The severity name that was given for the message to indicate its importance, such as 'Low' or '5'.

Message Text The content of the message, up to 256 characters. You can use the SCAN function to find a value anywhere in the message, and it can include an asterisk (*) as a wildcard, such as inciden* to find messages containing incidence, incident, or incidental. You can also use the STRing function to look for matching text at a specific location in the message.

Originnode The network name of the managed system where the situation triggering the Universal Message became true. Valid entries are up to 32 characters.  

Situation Name The name of the situation generating the Universal Message.

Timestamp The date and time at theCloud Pak System Software Monitoring Server when the universal message was sent. The format is MM/DD/YY HH:MM:SS.