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Event Property

Description

Example

eventid (_id)

A globally unique Event ID

 

time and time_tag

Unix EPOCH of the event

 

date

The human readable date

 

node

The NMIS node name

 

host

The IP address or hostname

 

event

Name of the event

Node Down, Node Up

element

What is the element of the node

FastEthernet1, Neighbor 1.2.4.5

state

Is the state true or false

up/down, open/closed, etc

stateful

Stateful object name

Node, Interface, OSPF Neighbor

details

Other event details

 

type

syslog, trap, NMIS

 

action

What action policy is associated to this event.

 

escalate

What escalation policy is associated to this event.

 

acknowledged

Has the event been acknowledged

True or false

flap

Is this event a flap?

True or false

action_requiredShould the GUI show the event as open?True of false

 

In addition to those  those a number of properties are optional and created under certain conditions:

Event PropertyDescriptionExample
duplicateoflist of Event IDs that this one is a duplicate of 
nodeslists nodes that caused this synthetic event 
eventidslist of Event IDs that were involved in causing this synthetic event 

delayedaction

Unix Time, until then the event is held back from processing