Universal Messaging 10.3 | Administration Guide | Using Command Central to Manage Universal Messaging | Publishing Events | Publishing Events on a Channel or Queue
 
Publishing Events on a Channel or Queue
Important:
The event publishing functionality works with Command Central 10.4 and higher.
Use the following procedure to create a new event and publish it on a Universal Messaging channel or queue, using the Command Central web user interface.
*To publish an event on a channel or queue
1. In Command Central, go to Environments > Instances > All > Universal-Messaging-instance_name > Administration.
2. Do one of the following:
*To publish an event on a channel, from the drop-down menu, select Channels and then select the channel on which you want to publish the event.
*To publish an event on a queue, from the drop-down menu, select Queues and then select the queue on which you want to publish the event.
3. Click the Publish tab and specify values for the following fields as required:
Property
Value
Event data
Required. The content of the event.
Tag
Optional. The tag of the event.
TTL (ms)
Optional. The time-to-live (TTL) of the event in milliseconds. Defines how long the event remains available on the channel or queue. If you specify a TTL of 0, the event remains on the channel or queue indefinitely.
Persistent
Optional. Whether the event is persistent.
Transient
Optional. Whether the event is transient.
Properties
Optional. Click to add event properties. For each property, specify the name, type, and value.
Number of publishes
Optional. The number of times to publish the event. If you do not select the option, it defaults to 1.
Publish as a Protobuf event
Optional. Whether to send the event as a Protobuf event. For more information about how to publish Protobuf events, see Publishing Protobuf Events.
Protobuf descriptor
Required only for Protobuf events. The Protobuf file descriptor that defines the message schema to be used for converting the event data into a Protobuf event.
4. Click Publish.
When you start snooping on events on the channel or queue, Command Central displays the event in the snooped events table.
For information about how to snoop on channels and queues, see Snooping on Channels and Snooping on Queues.