Designer 10.5 | Software AG Digital Event Services Help | Working with the Event Generator | Creating an Event Generator Project
 
Creating an Event Generator Project
The Event Generator project holds event rate definitions, event sequence files, event rules, and the file that represents the Event Generator named event_generator_project_name.deg.
*To create an Event Generator project
1. In the Digital Events Development perspective, right-click inside the Project Explorer view and navigate to New > Digital Event Generator Project.
2. In the Event generator name field, specify a name for the Event Generator.
3. Under Event types, use the dual list box to add the digital event types of the events that you want the Event Generator to emit. The list of event types from which you can choose contains only publishable event types.
Tip:
Use the search bar to filter the list of available digital event types. You can also select multiple event types by holding down the CTRL button and clicking specific entries, or by holding down the SHIFT button and clicking the first and last entry of a range.
4. Click Next to create an event rate for each of the event types you selected.
5. In the Event rate name field, specify a name for the event rate.
6. Select one of the following rates:
*Fixed event rate - emit a constant number of events per second. Specify values for each field in the table as outlined in the Description column:
Field
Description
Rate
The number of events that the Event Generator emits per second. Specify a positive floating point number.
*Variation - emit a number of events per second that changes with a deviation. Specify values for each field in the table as outlined in the Description column:
Field
Description
Start
The average number of events that the Event Generator emits per second. Specify a positive floating point number.
Deviation
The deviation in the number of events that the Event Generator emits per second. Specify a positive floating point number.
*Variation with trend - emit a number of events per second that increases or decreases overtime. Specify values for each field in the table as outlined in the Description column:
Field
Description
Start
The average number of events that the Event Generator emits per second. Specify a positive floating point number.
Deviation
The deviation in the number of events that the Event Generator emits per second. Specify a positive floating point number.
Trend
The positive or negative trend with which the number of events that the Event Generator emits per second increases or decreases. Specify a floating point number.
7. Click Finish.