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Add Events

See the chapter Understanding ENS for information about events.

To add an event

  1. Start the configuration editor as shown in Chapter 4, “Modifying the Configuration Database.
  2. Pull down the Edit menu and choose the Edit / Create Event submenu. This displays the Event Name dialog box.
  3. Click the space provided for the name of the event and enter the name you want to give the event. For example, Login Warnings.
  4. Click OK. This displays the Event dialog box as shown in the following figure.

  5. Complete the fields in the dialog box as follows, using the table in section Relationship Between Events and Scans in Chapter 10, “Understanding ENS,” to help you.
    1. Enter an identifier in Class only if you intend to place several similar events in the same category. For example, all events relating to logins could have the class Security.
    2. Enter the part of the serviced system being referred to in Subsystem. For example, if the event refers to login attempts, the subsystem could be Logins.
    3. Enter a fuller description of the event in Information. For example, Login attempt failed.
    4. Enter the text to be scanned for on the console in Text to Scan for. For example, Remote interactive login failure.
    5. Click the small button to the right of the Event Text Type field to choose whether the event is a literal or regular expression (see Chapter 10, “Understanding ENS,” for a description of regular expressions). In the example, Literal is chosen.
    6. Click the priority you want to give the event in the Event Priority box. For example, Warning.
    7. Use the slider bar on Context Start to choose where the event starts, and on Context Count to determine how long it will last. For example, a start of 3 and a count of 14 means that the event starts 3 lines before the text Remote interactive login failure and continues on from the start for 14 lines.
    8. When you have finished, click OK.
  6. Continue to enter other events, if you wish.