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Understanding and Customizing the Event Contents
From the Situation editor EIF tab of the Tivoli Enterprise Portal, you can create map definitions for situation events sent to the EIF Probe. 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 event attributes and EIF attribute slots.
With IBM Tivoli Monitoring you can also use the itm_custom_override.rules file to customize the mapping of EIF event attributes to OMNIbus attributes. To map an EIF event attribute to a new OMNIbus attribute, you must add the attribute to the ObjectServer alerts.status table before updating the itm_custom_override.rules file.
Neither EIF Slot Customization or custom rules should change the values of the attributes that are used by the IBM Tivoli Monitoring triggers in the Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer. For details on attributes that should not be modified, see Default mapping of situation events to OMNIbus events.
Common tasks for understanding and customizing the contents of an event
Task Architecture Type Administrator See Default mapping of situation events to OMNIbus events and Generic mapping for agent-specific slots for details on the default mappings of event attributes to EIF slots and OMNIbus attributes.
Unidirectional and bidirectional IBM Tivoli Monitoring and Netcool/OMNIbus See the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Tivoli Enterprise Portal User's Guide or the Tivoli Enterprise Portal online help for details on using the EIF slot customization function to customize how situation event attributes are mapped to EIF attribute slots.
Unidirectional and bidirectional IBM Tivoli Monitoring Add event classes for new and updated agents to the MCS Attribute service used by the EIF Slot Customization function. Unidirectional and bidirectional IBM Tivoli Monitoring About customizing the format of the event message attribute. Unidirectional and bidirectional IBM Tivoli Monitoring Localize the event message attribute. Unidirectional and bidirectional IBM Tivoli Monitoring See Customize the rules file for details on how to customize the mapping of IBM Tivoli Monitoring EIF event attributes to Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer attributes. Unidirectional and bidirectional IBM Tivoli Monitoring and Netcool/OMNIbus
- Default mapping of situation events to OMNIbus events
You can use the mapping information in this topic when you forward a situation event to the Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer and want to write probe rules or SQL procedures and triggers in the ObjectServer.
- Generic mapping for agent-specific slots
Generic mapping is used for events for which there is no event mapping file and is based on the target event class that is identified by the situation definition.
- Add event classes for new and updated agents to the MCS Attribute service used by the EIF Slot Customization function
The EIF Slot Customization facility uses the MCS Attribute Service to present a list of predefined event classes in the Event class name list of the EIF Slot Customization window. The Event class name list of the EIF Slot Customization window is available through the EIF tab of the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Situation editor.
- About customizing the format of the event message attribute
The OMNIbus EIF probe maps the msg attribute slot in the EIF event sent from the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server into the Summary attribute of the ObjectServer. The Summary attribute gives you a descriptive way of looking at an alert in OMNIbus.
- Localize the event message attribute
Edit the KMS_OMTEC_GLOBALIZATION_LOC variable on the hub monitoring server to enable globalization of the EIF event msg attribute slot that is mapped to the OMNIbus Summary attribute by the OMNIbus EIF probe rules.
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Set up event forwarding to Netcool/OMNIbus