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Customize the event message
From the Situation editor EIF tab, you can create map definitions for situation events sent to the EIF receiver. The EIF Slot Customization window, which is opened from the EIF tab, is used to customize how situation events are mapped to forwarded EIF events, thus overriding the default mapping between situation events and events forwarded to the Tivoli Enterprise Console event server.
When the Base Slot name is msg, the Literal value column is used for the message template. The message template consists of fix message text and variable substitution references, or symbols. The symbol can refer to common or event slot data or a special reference to the situation formula. Common slots are those that are included in all forwarded events, such as situation_name; event slots are those specific to the situation. The following syntax rules apply when setting event slots:
- For an event slot, use the fully qualified attribute name ($Attribute_Table.Attribute_Name$)
- For a common slot, use the variable name that is not fully qualified (no . periods) unless it is the situation symbol
- For a situation formula, use $formula$
These characters are not supported: < less than, > greater than, " quotation mark, ' single quotation mark, and & ampersand. This column is available only if no value is selected in the Mapped attribute column. See the Tivoli Enterprise Portal online help or the Tivoli Enterprise Portal User's Guide for more information.
For the msg slot, typical users specify a Literal value, not a Mapped attribute value. If a value is specified in the Mapped attribute column for the msg slot, the following occurs:
- If Map all attributes is not selected, then the Mapped attribute for the msg will not be present in the event, and will be ignored.
- If Map all attributes is selected, then the Tivoli Enterprise Console event will only have the default message template and not the Mapped attribute specified in the msg slot.
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Situation event integration with Tivoli Enterprise Console