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EvmEvent(5) EvmEvent(5)
If present and EvmTRUE for an event generated in
the kernel, the event is not propagated from the
kernel to user space.
KERNEL_ONLY
Process ID
PID of the process which posted the event.PID
Parent Process ID
PID of the parent of the process which posted the
event.
PPID
User name
Name of the owner of the posting process.USER_NAME
Priority
Indicates the importance of the event. Does not
affect the order of event distribution. See the
description following this table.
PRIORITY
I18N catalog
Name of I18N catalog file for internationalized
events.
I18N_CATALOG
I18N message set id
Identifies the message set within the I18N message
catalog.
I18N_SET_ID
I18N message id
I18N message identification for the event.I18N_MSG_ID
Format
Event format text. See the EvmEventFormat(3)
and evmtemplate (4) reference pages for a descrip-
tion of the format string.
FORMAT
Reference
Reference to event explanation text.REF
Event Name
The event name is the primary means of identifying an event. It must be present for an event to be
posted. Although it can be any syntactically valid string, the name should generally identify the posting
facility and indicate what happened.
The event name is an ASCII character string, made up of a dot-separated series of components, with the
left-most component representing the top of a notational hierarchy. Component substrings may include
any combination of letters, digits and underbar characters. There is no restriction on the number of com-
ponents that can be included in an event name. An event template must contain at least two components.
An event must contain at least three components to be accepted for posting.
The naming scheme provides an open-ended way to identify events, letting you provide detail to any level.
Careful naming gives the system administrator an intuitive and precise way to select events for viewing
and monitoring and facilitates the identification of the system components which issue events and the
recognition of patterns that warn of problems. The more detail included in the event name, the more pre-
cise the specification criteria can be.
Event Identifier
The event identifier data item is a numeric quantity, assigned to an event by the EVM daemon as the
event is posted. In combination with the host and timestamp data items, the value can be used to pro-
duce a unique identity for an event.
The daemon assigns identifiers according to the following rules:
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