Job Management Partner 1/Integrated Management - Manager Administration Guide

5.1.3 Displaying extended attributes of JP1 events

You can display the content of an extended attribute in the display item (basic attribute or common extended attribute) column of the events list.

An example follows.

Mapping definition settings:

The mapping definitions described below are set.

Event information mapping definition 1

Mapping extended attribute LOGHOST to the registered host name.

Mapping-target event ID: 12E0

Event information mapping definition 2

Mapping extended attribute LOGTIME to the arrival time.

Mapping-target event ID: 12E0

Events generated:

Events with the content listed below are generated.

Table 5-3 Event generation content

No.	Attribute	Content
1	Severity	Error
2	Registered time	2001/10/30 17:47:31
3	Arrival time	2001/10/30 17:47:39
4	Registered host name	host_A
5	User name	jp1nps
6	Event ID	000012E0
7	Message	KAJC391-E ...
8	LOGHOST	loghost_1
9	LOGTIME	1003976997#

#: In the time format, the value becomes 2001/10/25 11:29:57.

Display in the Event Console window:

Normally, the events list in the Event Console window displays the contents of Nos. 1 to 7 in the above table, but because No. 8 is mapped to No. 4 and No. 9 is mapped to No. 3, the following is displayed:

Table 5-4 Event Console window display

Severity	Registered time	Arrival time	Registered host name	User name	Event ID	Message
Error	10/25 17:47:31	# 10/25 11:29:57	# loghost_1	jp1nps	000012E0	KAJC391-E ...

To display an extended attribute, in the Event-Information Mapping Definitions window, map a display item to the extended attribute. To start the Event-Information Mapping Definitions window, you need JP1_Console_Admin permissions.

To map an extended attribute:

1. In the Event Console window, from the Options menu, choose Event-Information Mapping Definitions.
   The Event-Information Mapping Definitions window opens.
   List of definitions shows the list of mapping definition information that is currently set.
   You can create a maximum of 16 mapping definitions.
   
2. To enable event information mapping, from the Mapping menu, choose Map.
3. To create a new mapping definition, click the Add button. To modify defined mapping information, choose an item from List of definitions and then click the Edit button, or double-click the item in List of definitions.
   The Event-Information Mapping Detailed Definitions window opens.
   
4. From Display items & order, select the display item in the events list to which to map the extended attribute.
   You can select only the following items, which can be displayed in the events list on the Monitor Events page, Severe Events page, or Search Events page of the Event Console window:
   

   Source process ID, arrival time, source user ID, source group ID, source user name, source group name, registered host name, source serial number, severity, user name, product name, object type, object name, root object type, root object name, occurence, start time, and end time.

   Specification example: registered-host-name
   
5. In Attribute name, specify the name of the extended attribute you want to map.
   You can specify a maximum of 32 characters consisting of upper-case letters, numbers, and underscores. You need not specify E to indicate an extended attribute.
   Each display item can be mapped to a single extended attribute only.
   To map an extended attribute to Arrival time, Start time, or End time, specify an attribute name whose attribute value is a numeric value (from 0 to 2,147,483,647 seconds from January 1, 1970 UTC). If you specify a value other than a numeric value or an attribute having a numeric value that is outside the range, the original attribute is displayed.
   Specification example: LOGHOST
   
6. In Event ID, specify the event ID of the JP1 event you want to map.
   You can specify a maximum of 1,000 characters, consisting of letters A-F or a-f, numbers, and commas. Specify the value in hexadecimal format. The range of values that can be specified is 00000000-7FFFFFFF.
   You can specify a maximum of 100 event IDs, delimited by commas.
   Specification example 1: 3FFF
   Specification example 2: 12345B, 7FFFFFFF
   
7. Click the OK button.
   The Event-Information Mapping Detailed Definitions window closes and the specified content is committed to the Event-Information Mapping Definitions window.
   
8. In the Event-Information Mapping Definitions window, click the Apply button.
   For events that arrive after the Apply button is clicked, the extended attribute is displayed along with this mapping definition.
   

When an extended attribute is displayed, it is preceded by the hash mark and a space (# ).

To specify a displayed extended attribute as the filtering condition, you need not enter "# ".

When a severity filter or user filter is used, you can specify a mapped extended attribute and filter JP1 events.

If you changed the settings in the Event-Information Mapping Definitions window, the change is applied to the events list of all JP1/IM - Views connected to the same JP1/IM - Manager.

To view the information prior to mapping, select the mapped event and open the Event Details window. The Event Details window displays the information prior to mapping. Note that you can use the definition file for the extended event attributes to display extended attributes in the Event Details window. For details, see the following explanations:

Using the definition file for the extended event attributes to display extended attributes

See 3.8 Displaying user-defined event attributes in the Job Management Partner 1/Integrated Management - Manager Overview and System Design Guide.

About the definition file for the extended event attributes

See Definition file for extended event attributes (2. Definition Files) in the manual Job Management Partner 1/Integrated Management - Manager Command and Definition File Reference.

Note the following points when you are mapping extended attributes:

• In an event search, because the integrated monitoring database or the event database of Event Service is searched, events before mapping are not searched. Therefore, the mapping information is not reflected in the search results. To search for mapping-target events, use Extended attribute in the Event Search Conditions window to specify the information of the extended attribute to be mapped.
• The related events displayed in the Related Events window are the result of an event search, and therefore do not reflect the mapping information.
• If you select an event to which an extended attribute is mapped and then click the Read From Selected Event button in the Event Search Conditions window, for example, the attribute of the display item at the mapping destination and the value of the extended attribute are not input into the condition list.

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