Elements

The probe breaks event data down into tokens and parses them into elements. Elements are used to assign values to ObjectServer fields; the field values contain the event details in a form that the ObjectServer understands.

The following table describes the elements that the Probe for Alcatel-Lucent 5ESS generates. Not all the elements described are generated for each event; the elements that the probe generates depends upon the event type.

Table 1. Elements
Element name	Description
`$AdditionalLinexxx`	These elements contain additional lines of text that describe the alarm. The alarm can contain more than one of these elements. `xxx` indicates a sequential number for the element.
`$GeneralHeaderLine`	This element contains the general header line of the record.
`$Host`	This element contains the name of the host on which Lucent 5ESS is running.
`$MessageClass`	This element contains the class of the message.
`$MessageIDnn`	This element contains a token from the report header. `nn` denotes the number of the report header token. This can be any integer value from 1 to 13.
`$Port`	This element contains the port on the host machine to which the probe connects.
`$Priority`	This element contains the priority as defined by the Lucent machine (see the 5ESS documentation for more information). This element may be blank.
`$PRMline`	This element contains the full Process Recovery Message (PRM) report generated for the alarm.
`$ProcessID`	This element contains the process ID of the sending process in decimal units.
`$ReportHeaderLine`	This element contains the header line of the report.
`$SequenceNumber`	This element contains the sequence number of the message.
`$SoftwareReleaseAndLoad`	This element contains the software release load number. Note: The probe only generates this element when the Switch property is set to 1 (indicating that the alarm is in domestic format).
`$SystemName`	This element contains the name of the system.
`$TranslationDate`	This element contains the date when the message was translated.
`$TranslationTime`	This element contains the time when the message was translated.
`$UTC`	This element contains the UNIX time of the `$TranslationDate` and `$TranslationTime` elements.
`$UtilityID`	This element contains the utility ID of the sending process in hexadecimal units. Note: The probe only generates this element when the Switch property is set to 1 (indicating that the alarm is in domestic format).
`$WholeRecord`	This element contains the entire international alarm record that the probe has read.