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Title:DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT.
Notice:Use IPMT for problems. Newsletter location in note 6187
Moderator:TAEC::BEROUD
Created:Mon Aug 21 1989
Last Modified:Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:6497
Total number of notes:27359

6238.0. "MAXIMUM NOTIFICATION LIMIT" by SALUD::ORTIZ () Mon Feb 20 1995 20:13

    Does the maximum notification limit mean that once you reach the limit
    no new notifications will be able to show up in the notification
    window or that the oldest notification will be dumped and the newest 
    notification will show up?
    
    Thanks for the help...
    
    Richard
    
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6238.1MAXIMUM NOTIFICATION LIMITDSVB03::AMRANIThu Feb 23 1995 15:2165
Hello Richard,
	When you reach the limit fixed by the maximum notification 
	limit, you have to take into consideration 2 others options
	(or resources):

		- mcc_nc.bufferFullPolicy which determines the policy
		  of the buffer full,

		- mcc_nc.overflowMultiplier which determines the size
		  of the buffer.

	mcc_nc.bufferFullPolicy
	  three buffer full policies:

		- Oldest - Delete Oldest Notification. Use this policy when
		  chronological ordering is the best policy for deleting 
		  notifications,

		- OldestNotUsedByMap - Try to delete Oldest Notification 
		  Not In Use By Map. A notification is considered to be not 
		  in use by the map when it is not contributing to an icon's
		  color.

		- LeastSevereNotUsedByMap - Try to delete Least Severe Notification 
		  Not In Use By Map. This is the default if the mcc_ns.bufferFullPolicy
		  is not found in the mcc_notification_resource.dat file. A notification
		  is considered to be not in use by the map when it is not contributing 
		  to an icon's color.
	

	Overflow multiplier
	  It is a real number that is used with the OldestNotUsedByMap and the 
	  LeastSevereNotUsedByMap policies. It is greather or equal to 1.0



	When using the Oldest policy and the notification buffer buffer is full (contains 
	max_notification), if a new notification arrives, the oldest notification will be 
	dumped and the newest notification will show up.

	
	When using the OldestNotUsedByMap policy and the notification buffer buffer is full,
	the arrival of a nwe notification causes the oldest not used in the Map to be
	discarded. The same situation when using the LeastSevereNotUsedByMap policy causes 
	the oldest notification with the lowest severity that is not used in the Map to be 
	discarded.

	If all notifications in the notification buffer are in use by the Map, no 
	notifications are discarded until the buffer contains the same number of 
	notifications as the buffer size multiplied by the Overflow multiplier. 
	For example, if the buffer size is 100 and the Overflow multiplier is 1.5, 
	the buffer would contain 150 notifications before discarding any notifications.
	 
	Once this number is exceeded when using the OldestNotUsedByMap, the oldest 
	notification in the buffer is discarded. The same situation when using the
	LeastSevereNotUsedByMap policy causes the oldest notification with the lowest
	severity to be discarded.

	For more information, please refer to page 3-11,3-13 of Alarms and Notification 
	Services User guide.

	Hope that it helps,

Best Regards,
	- Faycal AMRANI -