Using the Event Activity Statistics application

The Event Activity Statistics application is a facility that monitors and displays BMC AMI Ops Automation event traffic. Use this application when you want to display events available for automation by Rules. You can select any of the events shown on this panel and write a Rule for it.

The following shows an example of the panel:

How many times an event occurred: the Count column

Note that the Count column shows how many times the event has occurred since the last BBI-SS PAS cold start (or since the last time the BBI command .RESET STATS command was issued).

Use the numbers in this column to help you decide which events (based on their occurrence frequency) might be good candidates for automation with Rules.

How many times a Rule took actions for an event: the Handled column

If you have any automation already enabled, the Handled column shows how many times a Rule fired for an event and took the actions specified in the Rule for the event.

The Handled count is not incremented if the Rule fired but no actions were issued. For example, a Rule may issue no actions due to the Match Rate status = NoAction. Or a Rule has been created without any actions defined.

Masking the display

You can sort the display with the Type and Text-ID/Description fields to selectively show events by event type or text-ID.

Enter a text-string under either the Type column or Text-ID/Description column.
Press Enter.
The display is sorted to show entries that match the text-string that you entered.To see all the available data on this display, you can scroll both left and right as well as up and down on this panel.
For more information about using primary commands, see Viewing-events; refer to How-to-qualify-displays-in-the-Rule-Processor-applications for more information about masking.

Event Activity Statistics fields

The input fields under the Type and Text-ID/Description column headings can be used to qualify the display of events and show only certain event types or events with certain text-IDs.

See How-to-qualify-displays-in-the-Rule-Processor-applications for more information.

The following table contains descriptions of the fields on this panel.

Note

Events that do not show up on this panel are still eligible for automation but you must write Rules for them using the Display/Modify Rules and Rule Sets option (refer to Managing-Rules-and-automation-using-the-Automation-Control-panel).

Field	Description
Activated at	Is the date and time of either last cold start of the BMC AMI Ops Automation subsystem last time the BBI command .RESET STATS was entered
Total Events	Is the total number of events collected since last cold start of the BMC AMI OpsA subsystem last time the command .RESET STATS was entered
Rule Set to be Updated	Is the name of the enabled Rule Set to which a Rule is added if you select an event from the display to be automated with a Rule (using the Select \| S line command) The default Rule Set name is AAORUL00. You also can enter a new Rule Set name in this field.
Sort Criterion	Is the column title by which this display is sorted Valid values are COUNT, HANDLED, Text-ID, and NONE. NONE displays the events in the order in which they first occurred.
LC	Is the field in which you can enter the line command Select \| S When you enter an S and press Enter to select an event, the Rule Processor Detail Control panel is displayed and you can begin to create a Rule for the event with this panel.
Count	Is the number of times that this event occurred since last cold start of the BMC AMI OpsA subsystem last time the command .RESET STATS was entered
Handled	Is the number of times a Rule fired and issued action(s) for the event. If no action was issued then this count is not incremented.
Type	Is the event origin; possible values for the Event Activity Statistics application are as follows: ALRM, ALRT, BRC, CICS, CMD, DB2, EOM, EOS, EXT, IMP, IMS, JRNL, MSG, MQS, NVC, NVM, TIME, TLM, VAR
Text-ID/Description	Is a field containing the Text-ID and Description of the event The maximum length of the text-ID is 16 characters and the Text-ID is highlighted so that it stands out from the remainder of the message text. Only the first 100 characters of the message are displayed. Scrolling left and right affects only the description portion of this field. To scroll this display, use the LEFT or RIGHT commands from the command line or use the assigned PF keys.
UNIQUE	Is the number of unique events collected by the Event Activity Statistics application since the last BBI-SS PAS cold start or the last time the BBI command .RESET STATS was entered An event is considered unique by WORD1 of the event's text. New events are added to the statistics table in the order they occur after an BBISSP parameter cold start or the last time the .RESET STATS command was entered. The default maximum value is 510. When the maximum (510) is reached, new text-IDs are no longer added to the table but the count for events already in the table continues to be updated. The default maximum number of unique events is 510. The MCTSIZE parameter in BBPARM member BBISSP00 sets the maximum number of unique events. When the maximum is reached, new unique events are not added to the table. The count for an event already in the table, however, will increase when an event with a WORD1 value matches the text-id of the event already in the table. Because the Event Activity Statistics collects many event types, you might want to increase the MCTSIZE. To change the default maximum, change the MCTSIZE parameter in BBISSP00 (see BBISSP parameter for more information).