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
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| Tab
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Description
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| Overview
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This tab contains the event properties and event
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| Comments
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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.
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| Actions
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This shows the results of an action that has been run while the event was open.
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| Previous Events
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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
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| Event_page#Audit_log#Audit log
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The Audit log
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2.1 Overview
| Event properties
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| Property
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Description
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| ID
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A GUID that distinguishes all of the messages. Primarily used to tell similar events apart.
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| Severity
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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).
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| Status
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The state of event being either open or closed.
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| Node
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The name of the node where the event was received.
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| First Occurred
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The date/time that the event was detected by the management application.
| Type
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First occurred
| | Policy
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The time that the Veloopti agent detected the event
| | Logfile
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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
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The date/time that appears in the SNMP trap
| | API
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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.
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| Received
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The date/time that the event was received by the Veloopti data aggregator.
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| Last Occurred
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The latest "First Occurred" date. If this is not the same as the First Occurred date then there will be event duplicates.
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| ITIL Component
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The ITIL component that the event relates to: Availability, Capacity or Security.
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| Custom event properties
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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.
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2.3 Actions
2.4 Previous Events
2.5 Audit Log