do-generate-event

Sends an Identity Manager user-defined event to the Novell® Auditing service. Identity Manager user defined event IDs must be between the range of 1000 to 1999. Valid event levels are defined in the table below. The remaining event data fields are provided by four <arg-string> elements with name attributes. The Novell Audit event structure contains two strings (text1, text2) along with one integer (value) and generic field (data). The two text fields are limited to 256 bytes and the data field can contain up to 3 KB of information.

Remarks

Level	Description
log-emergency	Events that cause the Metadirectory engine or Identity Manager driver to shut down.
log-alert	Events that require immediate attention.
log-critical	Events that can cause parts of the Metadirectory engine or Identity Manager driver to malfunction.
log-error	Events describing errors that can be handled by the Metadirectory engine or Identity Manager driver.
log-warning	Negative events not representing a problem.
log-notice	Events (positive or negative) an administrator can use to understand or improve use and operation.
log-info	Positive events of any importance.
log-debug	Events of relevance for support or engineers to debug operation of the Metadirectory engine or Identity Manager driver.

Tag	Description
text1	Text entered here is stored in the text1 event field.
text2	Text entered here is stored in the text2 event field.
value	Any number entered here is stored in the value1 event field.
data	Data entered here is stored in the blob event field.

Example

<do-generate-event id="1000" level="log-info">  <arg-string name="text1"> <token-text>User defined data for text1field</token-text> </arg-string> <arg-string name="text2"> <token-text>User defined data for text2field</token-text> </arg-string> <arg-string name="value"> <token-text>-602</token-text> </arg-string> <arg-string name="data"> <token-text>User defined blob data</token-text> </arg-string></do-generate-event >

Allowed Content

Element	Description
arg-string	String argument.

Attributes

Attribute	Possible Values	Default Value
disabled	true \| false True if this element is disabled.	false
id	CDATA Identity Manager user-defined event ID (1000-2000). Supports variable expansion.	#REQUIRED
level	log-emergency \| log-alert \| log-critical \| log-error \| log-warning \| log-notice \| log-info \| log-debug Novell Audit log level.	log-info
notrace	true \| false True if this element should not be traced during execution of the policy.	false

Content Rule

( arg-string * )

Parent Elements

Element	Description
actions	Actions that are performed by a <rule>.
arg-actions	Actions argument.