CBE discussion examples

[John Gerken <John_Gerken@us.ibm.com>]

Here are a couple examples of simple
CBEs for our call today.  There's obviously lots of stuff not included
here, but perhaps we can use these as a place to start our discussions.
 Recall that the basic structure for a CBE is the so-called "4-tuple"
made up of the following four pieces:

- The sourceComponentId (the identification
of the component that was affected)
- The reporterComponentId (the identification
of the component that reported the event)
- The situation (the data that describes
the situation or event )
- The contextDataElements (contextual
data that is used to correlate events or situations)

reporterComponentId is only required
if different from sourceComponentId.  contextDataElements is optional.
 With that in mind, consider these two simple cases.

<!-- simplest CBE -->
<CommonBaseEvent
        creationTime="2001-12-31T12:00:00"
        version
= "2.1">

        <sourceComponentId
         
      componentAddressType = "TCPAddressTypeV4"

         
      xsi:type="TCPAddressType"
         
      componentType = "http:// www.ibm.com/namespaces/database/DB2_componentTypes"
         
      component = "IBM DB2#7.1"
         
      subComponent = "Engine"
         
      ipAddress = "9.27.80.22"
         
      ipType = "IPV4"/>

        <situation
         
      categoryName="StartSituation" 
         
      reasoningScope="EXTERNAL" 
         
      xsi:type="StartSituation"
         
      successDisposition="SUCCESSFUL"

         
      situationQualifier="START INITIATED"/>
</CommonBaseEvent>


<!-- CBE with human readable information
for a UNIX Syslog-->
<CommonBaseEvent
        creationTime="2001-12-31T12:00:00"

        version="2.1"

        globalInstanceId="CED849B8B0CB3C1D448332C902BFE111D8">

        <sourceComponentId

         
      componentAddressType="TCPAddressTypeV4"

         
      xsi:type="TCPAddressType"
         
      componentType = "http:// www.ibm.com/namespaces/database/"
         
      component = "IBM DB2#7.1"
         
      subComponent = "Engine"
         
      ipAddress = "9.27.80.22"
         
      ipType = "IPV4"
         
      processId = "7304"/> 
         
      
        <situation

         
      categoryName="StartSituation" 
         
      reasoningScope="EXTERNAL" 
         
      xsi:type="StartSituation"
         
      successDisposition="SUCCESSFUL"

         
      situationQualifier="START INITIATED"

         
      msg = "Here is my message"
         
      msgLocale = "en-US"
         
      severity="10"/>
</CommonBaseEvent>

Thanks,
John Gerken
Technical Team Leader
Emerging Technologies Toolkit Development
IBM Emerging Technologies Software Group
John_Gerken@us.ibm.com