Creating Additional Event Rate Definitions

Designer 10.7 | Software AG Digital Event Services Help | Working with the Event Generator | Creating Additional Event Rate Definitions

Use the following procedure to create additional event rate definitions. The additional event rates you create become available in the Event Generator project.

To create an additional event rate definition

1. In the Project Explorer view of the Digital Events Development perspective, right-click the Event Generator project and select New > Digital Event Generator Event Rate.

2. In the Event generator field, specify the Event Generator for which you want to create an event rate definition.

3. In the Event rate name field, specify a name for the event rate.

4. 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.

5. Click Finish.