Event notification

An event is a change in Platform Analytics reflecting a change in state.

About events

An event is a change in Platform Analytics reflecting a change in state, including events that provide information about problems encountered when running Platform Analytics (Warning, Error, or Fatal events), or events that contain useful administration information on Platform Analytics activities (Info events).

Event notification

Platform Analytics sends an event notification email when it encounters a change in state that matches the event notification settings. An event notification email informs you of the change in state in Platform Analytics or the cluster, allowing you to decide whether you want to check the Platform Analytics Console for further details.

Event actions


Action

Platform Analytics Console

View the list of events.

In the navigation tree, click Events.

View a filtered list of events.

When viewing the list of events, select Action > Filter Events from the menu toolbar.

Edit event notification settings.

When viewing the list of events, select Action > Notification from the menu toolbar.

Important:

If you enable or disable event notification, you need to restart the Platform Task Scheduler to apply this change. See Restart the Platform Task Scheduler.


Restart the Platform Task Scheduler

If you enable or disable event notification, you need to restart the Platform Task Scheduler to apply this change. The steps you take to restart the task scheduler depend on your operating system.

  • Windows: Restart the task scheduler service.
    1. From the Windows Control Panel, select Administrative Tools > Services.
    2. Right-click Platform Platform Analytics Task Scheduler and select Restart.
  • UNIX: Restart the task scheduler daemon.
    1. From the command line, navigate to the ANALYTICS_TOP/bin directory.
    2. Restart the Platform Analytics daemons.

      perfadmin stop all

      perfadmin start all

Configuration to modify event notification behavior


Action

Configuration files

Parameter and syntax

Filter specific event notification emails.

eventfilter.properties

File location: ANALYTICS_TOP/conf

Add a new line for each filter. Email notifications that match any one of these lines are filtered out.

Regular expressions are supported.

For example, if the file contains the following:

Communication timeout
Connection reset
PLC[0-9]+ has been restarted

The following notifications will be filtered out and you will not receive these emails:

Communication timeout

PLC10 has been restarted at 12:00:00, Jan. 1, 2010.