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NMEVENTDATA

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The NMEVENTDATA structure contains information about an event condition that is passed to Network Monitor to insert a line in the expert viewer.

typedef struct {
  BYTE Version;
  DWORD EventIdent;
  DWORD Flags;
  DWORD Severity;
  BYTE NumColumns;
  LPSTR szSourceName;
  LPSTR szEventName;
  LPSTR szDescription;
  LPSTR szMachine;
  JTYPE Justification;
  LPSTR szUrl;
  SYSTEMTIME SysTime;
  NMCOLUMNINFO Column[];
} NMEVENTDATA, 
 *PNMEVENTDATA;

Members

  • Version
    Version number of the NMEVENTDATA structure. The version number must be zero. Future versions of Network Monitor may support a higher version number.

  • EventIdent
    Identifier of the event. EventIdent is unique to each expert, and references an event reference page.

  • Flags
    A set of flags that describes who sends the event data, and how the event is displayed.

    Value Meaning
    EVENT_FLAG_EXPERT The event came from an expert.
    NMEVENTFLAG_DO_NOT_DISPLAY_SEVERITY Do not display the severity level for the event.
    NMEVENTFLAG_DO_NOT_DISPLAY_SOURCE Do not display the source name for the event.
    NMEVENTFLAG_DO_NOT_DISPLAY_EVENT_NAME Do not display the event name for the event.
    NMEVENTFLAG_DO_NOT_DISPLAY_DESCRIPTION Do not display the description for the event.
    NMEVENTFLAG_DO_NOT_DISPLAY_MACHINE Do not display the machine name for the event.
    NMEVENTFLAG_DO_NOT_DISPLAY_TIME Do not display the time for the event
    NMEVENTFLAG_DO_NOT_DISPLAY_FIXED_COLUMNS Do not display the Severity, Source, Event Name, Description, Machine, or Time columns. This is not a single flag, but it is a union of the previous six flags.

  • Severity
    Severity level of the event. The severity level can have one of the following values:

    NMEVENT_SEVERITY_INFORMATIONAL NMEVENT_SEVERITY_WARNING NMEVENT_SEVERITY_STRONG_WARNING NMEVENT_SEVERITY_ERROR NMEVENT_SEVERITY_SEVERE_ERROR NMEVENT_SEVERITY_CRITICAL_ERROR

  • NumColumns
    Number of columns designated in the current structure.

  • szSourceName
    Name of the expert that is displayed.

  • szEventName
    Name of the event that is displayed.

  • szDescription
    Description of the event that is displayed.

  • szMachine
    Obsolete, should be NULL.

  • Justification
    Information displayed in the second window of the Event Viewer. The Justification member may be NULL. If it is NULL, the second window is not be visible.

  • szUrl
    Reserved; this member must be NULL.

  • SysTime
    Time at which the event condition occurs. The time is measured relative to the beginning of the capture.

  • Column
    Table of column structures that appears in the top pane of the Event Viewer.

Requirements

Client Requires Windows XP, Windows 2000 Professional, or Windows NT Workstation 4.0.
Server Requires Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 Server, or Windows NT Server 4.0.
Header

Declared in Netmon.h.