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 Nokia-Siemens EWSD (UNIX) 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
`$EventTime`	This element contains the time at which the event occurred.
`$Mask`	This element contains the mask number for the event. This defines the contents and format of the event. For descriptions of all event formats, see the EWSD Output Manual.
`$Linen`	This element contains each line of the event passed to the rules file as a single token, where `n` represents a line number.
`$NEName`	This element contains the network element name.