Default notification attributes

The VoIP Availability Manager with the Cisco Enablement Pack displays various default notification attributes for events. Default notification attributes lists the default attributes.

Table 1. Default notification attributes

Notification attribute	Description
AutoAcknowledgmentInterval	Automatically acknowledge this event if it is cleared for this interval 0 means never autoAcknowledge.
Category	Category of this event. The event category represents a broad categorization of the event, e.g. availability vs. performance.
Certainty	The certainty of this event. Defaults to 100.
ClassName	Class name of the object where this event occurred. This attribute along with InstanceName and EventName uniquely identify this event.
ClassDisplayName	Display name for the event class. Defaults to ClassName.
ClearOnAcknowledge	Indicates if this event should be cleared when it is acknowledged. Set this to TRUE only for events that do not expire nor have sources that generate a clear. Defaults to FALSE.
Description	A textual description of the object. Defaults to “ ”.
DisplayName	The string shown in the GUI when this object is displayed. Defaults to Name.
EventName	Name of the event. This attribute along with ClassName and InstanceName uniquely identify this event.
EventDisplayName	Display name for the event Name. Defaults to EventName.
EventText	The textual representation of the event.
EventType	Indicates the nature of the event. A MOMENTARY event has no duration. An authentication failure is a good example. A DURABLE event has a period during which the event is active and after which the event is no longer active. An example of a durable event is a link failure. (Possible values: DURABLE, MOMENTARY).
InstanceName	Instance name of the object where this event occurred. This attribute along with ClassName and EventName uniquely identify this event.
InstanceDisplayName	Display name for the event instance. Defaults to InstanceName.
OccurredOn	The element the indication is associated with. Setting this value causes ElementClassName and ElementName to be set appropriately.
OriginalSources	This table maps an original source to corresponding immediate sources.
ServiceName	Name of external server used for imported events and instrumented attributes.
Severity	An enumerated value that describes the severity of the event from the notifier's point of view: 1 - Critical is used to indicate action is needed NOW and the scope is broad, e.g. an outage to a critical resource. 2 - Major is used to indicate action is needed NOW. 3 - Minor should be used to indicate action is needed, but the situation is not serious at this time. 4 - Unknown indicates that the element is unreachable, disconnected or in an otherwise unknown state. 5 - Normal is used when an event is purely informational. Default = 5.
SourceDomainName	The name(s) of the domain(s) that have originally diagnosed and notified - directly or indirectly - current occurrences of this event. If there are more than one original domain, the attribute lists each separated by a comma. When the notification is cleared, the last clearing domain stays in the value.
TroubleTicketID	Trouble ticket ID. Defaults to "".
UserDefined1-UserDefined10	Ten user defined fields. Each field defaults to "".