Event Gateway stitcher descriptions
Event Gateway stitchers fall into four different categories.
Stitchers in each category are responsible for different aspects of
topology lookup and event enrichment.
Topology lookup stitchers
These are the stitchers listed in the event maps. Topology lookup stitchers take the raw event, perform a topology lookup, and carry out some event enrichment. They frequently make use of other stitchers to perform tasks. For example, they might use data extraction stitchers to extract information from the event, entity retrieval stitchers to match the event to an entity in NCIM cache, and event enrichment stitchers to enrich the event.
Data extraction stitchers
The sole purpose of these stitchers is to take a single event data string in standard format, and parse the string to extract a single value, which is returned.
Entity retrieval stitchers
These stitchers take predefined data, typically extracted from the event, and try to retrieve a matching entity from the entityData table in the NCIM cache. The stitchers return the retrieved entityData record, if found, and NULL otherwise.
Event enrichment stitchers
These stitchers enrich the event with the topology data retrieved by other stitchers.
Stitchers not used by default
These stitchers are provided as examples of extra functionality that can be added to the Event Gateway using stitchers. These stitchers can be executed from other stitchers.