B.0 F/X Adapter Alarm Properties

The F/X Adapter generates alarms in Operations Center that have some standard properties in addition to the properties generated as a result of the parsing configuration and data content. These standard properties are listed here to enable clarification over what alarm properties are available as standard for use within the MODL™ Hierarchy File and/or script processing.

Following are the alarm properties:

Alarm Property

Meaning

ALARM_TYPE

Type of alarm. Possible values:

DATA: The most common type, representing real data from a source.

STATUS: F/X Monitor generated status alarm reporting the health of the monitor or reader polls.

FILEINFO: File information alarm, details files processed, size, date stamp, and so on. These alarms are generated based on the <sendfile> setting of the corresponding Collector.

AlarmExpiry

Calculated expiry time for the alarm shown in the form:

N DATETYPE CREATE|DATE

where:

  • N is the number of units

  • DATETYPE is one of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months

  • CREATE is relative to alarm create date

  • DATE is relative to the alarm date stamp

AlarmLifetime

Defined lifetime for the alarm shown as a formatted date string using the locale of the Operations Center server.

CollectorType

The type of Collector that captured the source data.

CreateDate

Time at which the alarm was created in Operations Center, in java Date format.

Duplicates

The number of alarms deduplicated by this alarm. Initially 0 for an alarm, indicating that no additional alarms have been deduplicated.

Encoding

Encoding of the source data (where applicable).

FileDate

Date stamp of the source file (where applicable).

FileDirectory

Directory of the source file (where applicable).

FileLine

The line number of the data that created the alarm (where applicable).

FilePath

File name of the source data (where applicable). For URICollector, this value is the URI accessed.

FileSize

Size of the source file from which the alarm was generated (where applicable).

FTPInfo

Details of the FTP Server data was collected from (where applicable).

MONITOR_PROCESSDATE

The time stamp at which the F/X Monitor processed the alarm. This is represented in ‘long’ date format, such as the number of milliseconds since 1 January 1970.

MonitorHost

The hostname of the F/X Monitor from which the alarm was generated.

MonitorIP

The IP address of the F/X Monitor from which the alarm was generated.

ParserName

The name of the Reader that defined the collector and parser.

UniqueColumns

The list of unique alarm columns identified by configuration.