NET$MGMT_HELP.HLB  —  EVD  sink
   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.
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