EMS Manual

Standard Events
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Common-Standard Tokens That Subsystems
Provide
Critical
Indicator
ZEMS-TKN-EMPHASIS (ZSPI-TYP-BOOLEAN,C)
Indicates the critical nature of the condition reported in the event. Standard
values are:
ZSPI-VAL-TRUE indicates event is critical.
ZSPI-VAL-FALSE indicates event is not critical (default).
An event is critical if it reports any of these conditions:

Potential or actual loss of data

Loss of a major subsystem function

Loss of fault tolerance, such as loss of a redundant resource or loss of a
failure-recovery function

Loss of subsystem integrity such as an unrecoverable internal error
If an event is critical, this token should have the value ZSPI-VAL-TRUE.
Otherwise, it should have the value ZSPI-VAL-FALSE.
Suppress
Display
ZEMS-TKN-SUPPRESS-DISPLAY (ZSPI-TYP-BOOLEAN,C)
Indicates whether the event should be displayed on an operator console like
ViewPoint. Standard values are:
ZSPI-VAL-TRUE indicates not to display
ZSPI-VAL-FALSE indicates to display (default)
If an event is not to be displayed on the operator console, this token must be
present with the value ZSPI-VAL-TRUE. Otherwise, this token should have the
value ZSPI-VAL-FALSE. An event should only be displayed if it is meaningful to
the operator. Events that provide trace, debug, diagnostic, status, or historical
information are helpful for analyzing subsystem problems by system analysts or
developers. Such events are not very useful to the operator, so they should not
be displayed.
This token existed prior to standard events; therefore, it is necessary to
preserve the semantics of this token here. New management applications
should use other criteria, such as the type of event, instead of this token to
determine if an event should be displayed. Only ViewPoint (of the HP products)
uses this token in determining whether to display. $Z0 and EMSDIST ignore this
token.
Batch
Job ID
ZEMS-TKN-BATCHJOB-ID (ZSPI-TYP-UINT,C)
Identifies the ID of the batch job associated with the object or the process that
controls the object. Standard events contain a batchjob ID token only if the
object is associated with a batch job (has a job ID). Batchjob ID is a conditional
token.