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Using the Event Traffic Controller

The ADDRESS TNG environment enables REXX programs to send events to the CA NSM Event Manager. The interface allows you to:

• Send a message to CA NSM Event Manager (and, optionally, wait for an operator's reply)
• Send a command to be executed by CA NSM Event Manager
• Send an SNMP trap to any SNMP-aware system manager (for example,CA NSM Event Manager).

For example, a REXX application that is performing an automation task in response to a z/OS event could issue a message to the CA NSM operator console, wait for the operator's reply, and then use the reply to proceed down one of several possible paths to a solution for the problem.

You could also use SNMP traps to communicate to any SNMP-knowledgeable system manager. Through this technique, you could convey events gathered from a legacy system (through a direct-connect data feed between the legacy system and CA Automation Point) to an SNMP manager that would otherwise have no mechanism to connect to the legacy system.

Before you can use the ADDRESS TNG environment to communicate with CA NSM Event Manager, you must have installed the CA NSM Event Manager Interface component on the machine that is running CA Automation Point.