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.
Static elements
The following table describes the elements that the probe generates. Not all the elements described are generated for each event; the elements that the probe generates depend on the event type.
| Element name | Element description |
|---|---|
| $ClassName | This element contains the class name of the event. |
| $EventSeqNo | This element indicates the sequence number of the event. |
| $EventString | This element contains the entire event in a single string. |
Dynamic elements
The probe also creates dynamic elements. Creation of these elements depends on how an alarm is defined within Tivoli EIF. There is no guarantee that you will find all these elements with every alarm you encounter. Generic alarms have all of them.
The following table describes the elements that the probe generates. Not all the elements described are generated for each event; the elements that the probe generates depend on the event type.
| Element name | Element description |
|---|---|
| $date | This element contains the date of the event in mm/dd/yy format. |
| $EventClass | This element indicates the class of the event as assigned by the event source. The probe uses this to identify the format of the message for each event type. |
| $hostname | This element contains the host name of the system. |
| $msg | This element contains the content of the message. |
| $peerhost | This element identifies the secondary host. |
| $severity | This element indicates the severity of the alarm. |
| $source | This element indicates the type of application that has created the event. |
| $sub_origin | This element contains the optional sub-categorization of the event origin. |
| $sub_source | This element contains a detailed description of the source. |