5.1 Understanding Groups, Elements and Alarms

Groups, elements, and alarms display in a hierarchy in the Definition Navigator pane of the Data Integrator Definition Editor.

Figure 5-1 illustrates element and alarm definitions displaying for the Support Issues adapter definition:

Figure 5-1 Definition Navigator Pane

In addition to the basic folder (Group Element), Table 5-1 explains the three definitions that are used to create the element structure for the adapter and feed it additional data through element alarms:

Table 5-1 Types of Element and Alarm Definitions

Icon

Type

Creates…

Group

A single folder in the Operations Center hierarchy tree when an adapter is created from the deployed definition.

Database Element

One or more elements (generated by a database query) in the Operations Center hierarchy when an adapter is created from the deployed definition. Use this element definition when a more complex query is needed to filter the data to create specific elements. These elements have property information defined about them and can have custom property pages.

 

Dynamic Groups (Generator)

One or more elements (generated directly from a database table column) in the Operations Center hierarchy tree when an adapter is created from the deployed definition. Use this element definition type to create an element directly representing each of the column values. There is no other information or properties defined for these elements.

Alarm

Alarms or events (generated by a database query) for the associated elements in the Operations Center hierarchy when an adapter is created from the deployed definition.

In the Definition Navigator pane, each definition created for the adapter definition is displayed with the associated icon for the definition type. Browsing the adapter definition hierarchy provides an overview of the types of elements and associated alarms.