Creating Custom Run-Time Events

CentraSite provides the predefined event types described in The Run-Time Event Types. In addition, you can create custom run-time events that CentraSite will monitor.

Prerequisite: You must have the Manage Runtime Event Types permission. By default, the predefined roles CentraSite Administrator and Operations Administrator include this permission. For more information about roles and permissions, see Getting Started with CentraSite.

Important:

To enable CentraSite to recognize custom event types, ensure that your MIB file (which is contained in your target type definition file) contains the SNMP Traps metadata and Object Identifiers for the custom events. For more information, see Run-Time Gateways.

1. In CentraSite Control, go to Operations > Events > Event Types to display the Event Types page.

The page displays all the predefined event types (Monitoring, Policy Violation, Transaction, Error, and Lifecycle) and any custom event types that have been defined.

2. To view the details of any event type, click its hyperlinked name.

The list of attributes for the event type is displayed. You can edit the attributes of custom event types, but not the predefined event types (see Modifying Run-Time Events).

3. To create a custom event type, click the Add Event Type button. In the Add/Edit Event Type page specify a name and description for the event type. Event type names can contain any character (including spaces), and are not case-sensitive.

4. In the Event Type Attribute panel, the following default attributes are displayed. These attributes are required and cannot be deleted:

Attribute	Data Type
TimeStamp	Date
Target	String
Service	String
SessionID	String

To create additional attributes, perform the following steps:

a. Click the plus button at the bottom of the attribute list.

b. Specify a name in the Name column and a value in the Data Type column (Boolean, File, Date, Integer, or String). Attribute names can contain any character (including spaces).

c. To add another attribute, click the plus button at the bottom of the list.

d. To delete an attribute, click the minus button for the attribute you want to delete.