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The NetView Alerts

In its most basic form, an alert is a control block called a Network Management Vector Transport (NMVT). The NMVT contains items called vectors, which may contain subvectors. Each vector or subvector represents part of the alert.

The NMVT control block also contains a few fields for text. Two important fields are:

HIERARCHY

This field is a network management construct that can be useful for both NetView-generated alerts and CA OPS/MVS generated alerts. The Hierarchy field describes the components that are involved in a failure. For example, a hierarchy can consist of two CICS regions and a DB2 region that jointly caused a single failure.

TEXT

This field enables the alert to include random text.