An Event Dispatcher Sink entity represents a Sink. A Sink manages incoming connections and filters incoming events. Each Sink maintains a filter that is applied to all streams that are assigned to that Sink.
1 – character
CATCH ALL FILTER Default: Pass Value: Pass or Block Specifies the action to take if neither the specific filter setting nor the global filter setting matches an event or if a filter setting that does match an event is set to Ignore. PASS - Report the event. BLOCK - Discard the event. CLIENT TYPE Default: Console Value: See below Specifies the application to accept the events received by the sink. This can only be set when the Event Dispatcher sink entity is disabled when the sink state is off. CONSOLE - Events go to the operator's console. DEVICE - Events go to a device referred to by the device name characteristic. FILE - Events go to a file referred to by the filename characteristic. DESCRIPTION Default: Null Value: Latin1String Application description string. DEVICE NAME Default: Null Value: Latin1String Name of the device to which events are going to be logged, if the client type of the sink is device. DISPLAYUIDS Default: True Value: Boolean A boolean value indicating whether to include the UIDs when displaying an event. END USER Default: Number=82 Value: End-user-specified Sink session control end user specification for this sink. FILE NAME Default: SYS$MANAGER:NET$EVD_SINK_(sinkname).LOG Value: File specificaiton Name of the file to which events are going to be logged if the client type of the sink is file. OBJECT NAME Default: No Sink object Value: full-name Full DNS object name of the sink. Modifying this characteristic affects only subsequent connect requests; existing connections are unaffected. TEMPLATE Default: No Template Value: Simple-name Transport template for this sink's connections. USER CLIENT Default: Null Value: end-user specification Session control end user specification for a user program that has been set to receive events.
2 – counters
CONNECTIONS ACCEPTED Number of times a sink connection request was accepted by the sink partner. EVENTS FILTERED Number of events for this sink that were filtered by its sink filter. EVENTS LOST Number of events lost due to sink queue overflow. FILTER CHANGES Number of times the filter has changed.
3 – status
BUFFER SIZE Maximum number of octets allowed for event processing of this sink. This value is defined in the create command for the sink. This value is limited by the value specified in the maximum buffer size argument of the create command. STATE Status of the sink. OFF - The sink is disabled. ON - The sink is enabled.