Event page

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1 Overview

The events page shows you the event and its properties. Events have many different properties that are able to be used in different ways

2 Event tabs

Event tabs
Tab	Description
Overview	This tab contains the event properties and event
Comments	An annotation that a user writes and is associated with the event. Can be viewed either on the Comment or Audit tab of the event.
Action results	This shows the results of an action that has been run while the event was open.
Notifications	Any notifications that have taken place will be visible on the Notifications tab.
Previous Events	Two things are shown on this tab. A duplicate is an event that has the same event properties as the original and therefore is classified as a duplicate. It will appear as a increment of the duplicate count as a date/time field. A Previous Event is an event that has been previously closed
Audit log	The Audit log

2.1 Overview

Event properties
Property	Description
ID	A GUID that distinguishes all of the messages. Primarily used to tell similar events apart.
Severity	Standard categorisation based on the significance of an event: Information - The event does not require any immediate action and does not represent an exception. Warning - The event is generated when an application is approaching a threshold. Warnings are intended to notify you in order for you to take the necessary actions to prevent an exception occurring. Exception - This mean that the application is impacted and presents a failure, performance degradation or loss of functionality (web server down, database stopped responding, etc).
Status	The state of event being either open or closed.
Node	The name of the node where the event was received.
First Occurred	The date/time that the event was detected by the management application. Type First occurred Policy The time that the Veloopti agent detected the event Logfile The date/time that appears in the logfile. If this does not exist then it is the date/time that the Veloopti agent performed the logfile scan. SNMP Trap The date/time that appears in the SNMP trap API The date/time that is sent through the API. If this does not exist then it is the date/time that the Veloopti agent received the API event.
Received	The date/time that the event was received by the Veloopti data aggregator.
Last Occurred	The latest "First Occurred" date. If this is not the same as the First Occurred date then there will be event duplicates.
ITIL Component	The ITIL component that the event relates to: Availability, Capacity or Security.
Custom event properties	Custom event properties appear at the bottom of the standard event properties. This can be things like: eventID for windows event logs; URL for URL monitor policy; or anything for an inbound API policy.