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.