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The Common Base Event standard elements

The elements of the Common Base Event that are included in all events fired from service component monitoring are listed here.

Attribute Description
version Set to 1.0.1.
creationTime The time at which the event is created, in UTC.
globalInstanceId The identifier of the Common Base Event instance. This ID is automatically generated.
localInstanceId This ID is automatically generated (might be blank).
severity The impact that the event has on business processes or on human tasks. This attribute is set to 10 (information). Otherwise, it is not used.
priority Not used.
reporterComponentId Not used.
locationType Set to Hostname.
location

Set to the host name of the executing server.

Name of the server region.

application Not used.
executionEnvironment A string that identifies the operating system.
component Process server version. For business processes and human tasks: Set to WPS#, followed by the SCA version, the identification of the current platform, and the version identification of the underlying software stack.
componentType The component QName, based on the Apache QName format.

For business processes, set to:

www.ibm.com/namespaces/autonomic/Workflow_Engine

For human tasks, set to:

www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/websphere/scdl/human-task

subComponent The observable element name.

For business processes, set to BFM.
For human tasks, set to HTM.

componentIdType Set to ProductName.
instanceId The identifier of the server. This identifier has the format cell_name/ node_name/ server_name. The delimiters are operating system dependent.
processId The process identifier of the operating system.
threadId The thread identifier of the Java™ virtual machine (JVM).
Situation Type The type of situation that caused the event to be reported. For specific components, set to ReportSituation.
Situation Category The category of the type of situation that caused the event to be reported. For specific components, set to STATUS.
Situation Reasoning Scope The scope of the impact of the situation reported. For specific components, set to EXTERNAL.
ECSCurrentID The value of the current Event Correlation Sphere ID.
ECSParentID The value of the parent Event Correlation Sphere ID.
WBISessionID The value of the current Session ID.
extensionName Set to the event name.

Event catalog


Related concepts:
Session monitoring