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Conference csc32::consolemanager

Title:POLYCENTER Console Manager
Notice:Kits, Scans, Docs on CSC32:: as PCM$KITS:,PCM$DOCS:, PCM$SCANS:
Moderator:CSC32::BUTTERWORTH
Created:Thu Aug 06 1992
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1541
Total number of notes:6564

1098.0. "Matching unknow messages" by 59282::mqsp15.mqs.dec.com::fmonette () Wed Nov 15 1995 16:12

Hello everyone,

My customer wants to be able to receive an event in the eventlist if there is 
a unknow message that is not already defined in any events definition of 
filters. The customer told me that they know about 90% of theirs messages but 
they don't want to go into theirs log every night to see if they have new 
message that they don't filtered already.

I know that I can check for every line but the machine will die and this will 
not fix the problem of receiving unknow messages. I can understand why the 
customer wants to do it this way but I'm not sure if the product can do it.

I have another question. If PCM match an event, is it going to exit right away 
or will pass over the rest of events defined. I'am just worried if I defined 
hundreds of events, what is going to happen with over 60 systems managed by 
PCM ?

Thank you in advance for your help
Francois   
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1098.129067::BUTTERWORTHGun Control is a steady hand.Thu Nov 16 1995 15:4928
>My customer wants to be able to receive an event in the eventlist if there is 
>a unknow message that is not already defined in any events definition of 
>filters. The customer told me that they know about 90% of theirs messages but 
>they don't want to go into theirs log every night to see if they have new 
>message that they don't filtered already.
    
    PCM doesn't do "inverse scanning". In other words, it can only search
    for things it knows about. It can't search for things that it doesn't
    know about unless you match on everything. As Shaun Eliss pointed out
    it keeps the list of events in alpha order so you could define an
    event called ZZZZZZZZZ(or some such) whose type is a regular expression 
    with a match string of *^. This would match on any string followed by
    EOL but it is recommended not to do this.

I know that I can check for every line but the machine will die and this will 
not fix the problem of receiving unknow messages. I can understand why the 
customer wants to do it this way but I'm not sure if the product can do it.

>I have another question. If PCM match an event, is it going to exit right away 
>or will pass over the rest of events defined. 
    
    I'm not sure I understand your question but I think your asking if it's
    possible for a single line of text to match more than one event. It is 
    possible to have a line of text match multiple events. It depends on how 
    the event(s) are defined.
    
    Regs,
      Dan