Generic Events tab (options)

On the Generic Events tab, you can specify generic events and data source related settings.

For more information about how to configure actual generic events, see Generic events (explained).

Name	Description
Data source	You can choose between two default data sources and define a custom data source. What to choose depends on your third party program and/or the hard- or software you want to interface from: Compatible: Factory default settings are enabled, echoes all bytes, TCP and UDP, IPv4 only, port 1234, no separator, local host only, current code page encoding (ANSI). International: Factory default settings are enabled, echoes statistics only, TCP only, IPv4+6, port 1235, <CR><LF> as separator, local host only, UTF-8 encoding. (<CR><LF> = 13,10). [Data source A] [Data source B] and so on.
New	Click to define a new data source.
Name	Name of the data source.
Enabled	Data sources are by default disabled. Select the check box to enable the data source.
Reset	Click to reset all settings for the selected data source. The entered name in the Name field remains.
Port	The port number of the data source.
Protocol type selector	Protocols which the system should listen for, and analyze, in order to detect generic events: Any: TCP as well as UDP. TCP: TCP only. UDP: UDP only. TCP and UDP packages used for generic events may contain special characters, such as @, #, +, ~, and more.
IP type selector	Selectable IP address types: IPv4, IPv6 or both.
Separator bytes	Select the separator bytes used to separate individual generic event records. Default for data source type International (see Data sources earlier) is 13,10. (13,10 = <CR><IF>).
Echo type selector	Available echo return formats: Echo statistics: Echoes the following format: [X],[Y],[Z],[Name of generic event] [X] = request number. [Y] = number of characters. [Z] = number of matches with a generic event. [Name of generic event] = name entered in the Name field. Echo all bytes: Echoes all bytes No echo: Suppresses all echoing
Encoding type selector	By default, the list only shows the most relevant options. Select the Show all check box to display all available encodings.
Allowed external IPv4 addresses	Specify the IP addresses, that the management server must be able to communicate with in order to manage external events. You can also use this to exclude IP addresses that you do not want data from.
Allowed external IPv6 addresses	Specify the IP addresses, that the management server must be able to communicate with in order to manage external events. You can also use this to exclude IP addresses that you do not want data from.