What Is Aggregate Event?

When you're a user, it's easy to get bogged down in the day-to-day of your work. But when you look back at what you've accomplished over time, you'll find that it's not just the total of all the tasks you performed—it's also the total of all how you achieved them and that's where aggregate events come in! An aggregate event is a series of actions performed by a user that are initiated outside of a computer program but used in conjunction with that program. To put it another way: an aggregate event happens when you set up an alarm clock and then hit snooze once (or twice or three times…). The alarm clock was initiated outside of any computer program but was used in conjunction with one. Aggregate events usually occur after a series of events and represent those events—so if there's an alarm clock, there might be several snoozes before the alarm goes off. Aggregate events are typically related and occur on one or more configuration items within the same logical group; they serve as a viable platform for complicated, demonstrational end-user programming, and they work to match up event histories to the user's intentions. When it comes to programming, there are two schools of thought: one is the application-specific approach, where each application is coded separately and independently of other programs. The other is the aggregate event history approach, which looks at the bigger picture of event processing and aims to prevent high-level errors. In this case, rather than stopping the operation or retrying it with a different error recovery method, aggregate events pinpoint computation errors so they can be fixed quickly and accurately. This means that you get more accurate results from your scripts—and you don't have to worry about anything breaking down in the middle of your work! Aggregate events also have many advantages for programmers: they're easier to read and edit and more understandable than traditional scripts. You won't have trouble understanding what's happening with these scripts—even if you've never seen them before!