Properties of Status Attributes (CCMS)

Use

Status attributes (symbol ) are monitoring attributes that report error message texts and alert status.

Features

Status attributes have a number of special characteristics in the display of properties and methods. To display the properties of a status attribute, choose the attribute in the alert monitoring tree and choose Properties.

When should a message trigger an alert?

• Always (at every message): The Alert Monitor triggers a alert with the corresponding message value for every message.
• Message value (color) has changed: The Alert Monitor only triggers an alert if the alert color of a reported message changes. For example, an alert is triggered if a red message follows a yellow message.
• The message sent has changed: The Alert Monitor only triggers an alert if the color or severity of a message changes or if a new message is sent.
• Never: The Alert Monitor does not trigger any alerts.

Changing the value for alert generation

You can control the generation of alerts by influencing the criticality reported with every status message. Note that each setting only applies to the selected monitoring attribute and not to the associated MTE class.

You have the following options:

• Accept value unchanged: Choose this option to use the value reported by the application for a message. The default value for the message remains unchanged. This is the default option for the Alert Monitor.
• Red is transferred as yellow: Choose this option to display all reported red messages as yellow alerts. This means that the Alert Monitor displays only yellow alerts. No red alert messages are logged.
• Yellow is transferred as red: Choose this option to display all reported yellow messages as red alerts. This means that the Alert Monitor displays only red alerts. All reported yellow messages are logged as red alerts.
• Red is transferred as yellow and yellow is transferred as green: Choose this option to reduce the weighting of the reported messages. The Alert Monitor displays incoming red messages as yellow alerts and incoming yellow messages as green alerts.