Specifications

System Configuration Files

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• any text string that does not have quotes (“ “) within it is valid

Custom Messages

The alphanumeric messages sent to alert the system operator of an event can be

customized, as shown in the format above. The custom display message consists of two

parts. The custom portion of the display page is set in the events.cus file. It consists of a

text string within quotes (“<msg>” field), immediately following the <subscriber-id>

field. The second part of the message is predefined by Zetron, and it describes the details

of the source event.

For example, if the “<msg>” field were set to “***TNPP problem***” in events.cus, the

following display message would be sent on failure of Port 7:

***TNPP problem*** Port 7 Down

Default Messages

When the default values are used, the alphanumeric message consists of three parts. The

first part is the identification of the subsystem that generated the message (TNPP or

Startup). The second section of the message is a description of the source event. The last

part of the display message is the site identification string (set in options.cus with the

ClientName command).

Using the same event as in the last example and a ClientName of “Z99999 My Paging

Terminal”, the events page would be:

TNPP Port 7 Down Z99999 My Paging Terminal

Notice that the default message is fairly descriptive and in most cases will not require

customization. In this example, the default page is actually more complete than the custom

one above.

Events Table

The events.cus command lines describe a 2x2 table that can be displayed using the

ZlinkW events command. The events table shows the last occurrence (since the last

reboot) and the message sent for each type of event (TNPP or StartUp). The command

format is as follows:

+ events

There are three switches available for the events command. They are -d to display events

history, -p for events programming, and -z to zero-out events history.

For example, the following events.cus file:

StartUp Page 123-4567 "System Startup"

TNPP Page 123-4567 "**TNPP problem**" FaultRelay