Dispatches

Dispatches consist of a set of actions that will be dispatched along with some associated userdata. ENS passes this userdata to the action. In addition to the userdata, each dispatch includes the times of day (for each day of the week) when the event should be sent to that action. This allows you to specify different actions for the same filter to be dispatched depending on the time of day and the day of the week.

Dispatches have attributes as described in the following table.

Attribute	Description	Example
Action to dispatch	The name of the action to dispatch. The Console Manager supplied actions are: Archive Clean-up Broadcast Mail Multi-Line Window Single-Shot Window	Multi-Line Window
Information	Description to clarify what the dispatch does.	Events on systems to pepper
Userdata	Values to be specified.	Salt 0 0 tcpip
Dispatch hours	The times of the day when the action is to be dispatched. Clicking on this button invokes the Dispatch Hours dialog box	Before 8.00 and after 17.30

The following figures show how filters and dispatches work.

The following table describes how a new event is processed when you choose a subset for Events, Classes, Systems, Groups, Subsystems and Priorities.

	Filter Mechanism	Figure Reference1

IF OR	the new event matches… one of the EVENTS selected one of the CLASSES selected	1
AND OR	the new event matches one of the SYSTEMS selected one of the GROUPS selected	2
AND	the new event matches one of the SUBSYSTEMS selected	3
AND	the new event matches one of the priorities selected	4
AND	the new event is not one which previously occurred within the event interval set	5
AND	the new event is not within the interval set	6
THEN	dispatch all the actions listed	7
BUT ONLY IF	they are within their individual hours for the current day of the week	8
1See the preceding figures for figure references.

The AND and OR parts are significant.

If you want to be notified of events A and B, which are members of class X, then on the Filter dialog box, you need only select the class X; deselect the "All events" button but do not select any events in the "Events..." dialog. Therefore, an event will match if its name matches one which is selected (in this example, none are selected), or its class matches one of the classes selected (in this case class X).