Event Action — BEIM fields

Send Event

Specify whether or not Rule will send the slot and class data to the BMC Impact Manager cell when the Rule fires.

Use this option when you want to create the Rule action but do not yet want to send the BMC Impact Integration for z/OS data to the cell.

Specify one of the following values (abbreviations are permitted):

• Yes | Y - send the BMC Impact Integration for z/OS data when the Rule fires
• No | N - do not send the BMC Impact Integration for z/OS data when the Rule fires

Journal Details

Specify that the event details are written to the BBI Journal including

• the Rule Set and Rule ID that created the event
• the message text of the event
• the severity and Component Alias of the event
• the targets
• the Component Alias name

The default setting for this field is NO (do not send messages to the BBI Journal). If you specify BIIZJRNL=Y in BBPARM member AAOPRMxx, messages for this event are written to the BBI Journal.

If you specify BIIZJRNL=N in BBPARM member AAOPRMxx, but you specify Y in the Journal Details field, messages for this event only will be written to the BBI Journal.

Target(s)

Specify that the Rule will send events to BMC Impact Manager cells.

You can specify up to six target cell names that can be up to 16-characters long each and can contain variables. If no targets are specified, the event is sent to all cells.

Use the TGTNAME parameter in BBPARM member AAOGMExx to assign cells names. More than one cell can be assigned to the same target name.

To use wildcards in the target name:

• A plus sign matches a single character.
• An asterisk (*) indicates the target name should match an unlimited number of characters.

For example, the target name IMPACT* matches all cell names that begin with the name IMPACT.

Event class

Severity

Specify the severity of the event.

This Rule sends this value to the BMC Impact Manager cell along with any other specified fields.

This field is required; the default is WARNING and the following values are valid:

• UNKNOWN
• INFO
• MINOR
• CRITICAL
• OK
• WARNING
• MAJOR
• DOWN

You can also specify a LOCAL or SHARED variable. In addition, the variable must:

• begin with an ampersand
• be 1 - 32 characters in length
• be defined when the Rule fires

Component Alias

Specify a value in mc_smc_alias slot.

The event class name should meet the following guidelines:

• Names contains 1 to 55 characters (2 to 55 characters if the name begins with an ampersand, denoting a variable).
• Valid characters include all upper and lowercase alphabetic characters as well as numerics, national characters and most special characters.
• Lowercase characters are not converted to uppercase (all characters are accepted exactly as received).

You can use variables but they must meet the following requirements:

• begin with an ampersand
• be 1 - 32 characters in length
• be either a LOCAL or a SHARED variable
• must be defined when the Rule fires

If you own the BMC product Discovery for z/OS, and you specified a VSAM data set name in BBPARM member AAOPRMxx with the DZDSN parameter, you can specify the variable &!QCIA.QSERVER.IMFCIJOB in this field. Refer to the MainView AutoOPERATOR Customization Guide for more information about the DZDSN parameter.

Event Slots and Slot Value

Specify additional data that you consider relevant to the particular event being sent to a BMC Impact Manager cell.

These fields are optional and have no default.

Both Event Slot name and a corresponding Slot Value must be specified together on the panel; you can specify

• a 1- to 32 character slot name
• a 1 - 38 character slot value

The msg slot is used by the BIM cell to populate the event text. The msg must be specified in lowercase.

Event Slot and Event Value fields are case sensitive. If a variable name is specified it must be in uppercase. For example: &WORD3.

Refer to the MainView AutoOPERATOR BMC Impact Integration for z/OS User Guide for information about slot and class names.

You can also specify a LOCAL or SHARED variable. In addition, the variable must:

• begin with an ampersand
• be 1 - 32 characters in length
• be defined when the Rule fires