Allow/disallow new feature for NSE categorization processing

Products

• IT Management Suite

Issue/Introduction

With the ITMS 8.8 Release, there is a new feature for System Health: NSEs in Event Queue (Metadata Statistics (for Event Data Analytics)).

There are three new reports in Symantec Management Platform Console which benefit from this new feature:

Go to Reports > Notification Server Management > Server > Event Queue > Metadata Statistics 

1. "Pending Events" report shows current NSE queue on SMP Server which are not yet processed.
   Possible to identify which product, source causes lot of events in queue and see their common size, count of events files.
   
   
2. "Processed Events Summary" report shows summary of processed event types for defined period of time.
   Possible to see summarized information by source, product specifying required time period to see processed common amount of events, their size and taken CPU time to process them.
   
   
3. "Processed Events Timeline" report shows list of processed event types, that were saved into database
   Possible to see what events types are processed and how often per specified time period. User can see there event count, event size, CPU time taken to process these events.

Question:
Is there a setting that controls all this process NSE categorization? Can be disabled?

Environment

ITMS 8.8

Resolution

There is a core setting that controls process NSE categorization.

Note: By default new feature to process NSE categorization is enabled.

It is called "MetaEventHistoryLogMode", default value is '1', set it to '0' and it will be OFF.

For making changes to core settings, see: Updating Core Settings in ITMS 8.5 and later

Additional Information

"Using Event Data Analytics for understanding SMP Server performance" (KB 398266)