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Obtaining Monitored Event Information

When an event is extracted from CA NSM, information about the event is available in the following CA Automation Point variables:

&HOSTTIME

Specifies the time at which the event was generated.

&JOBID

Specifies the TCP/IP address of the device that sent the SNMP trap.

&JOBNAME

Specifies the value from the CA NSM Process field; this field normally contains the value ProcessID,ExecutableName.

&MONNAME

Specifies the name of the host that generated the event.

&MONNUM

Specifies the name of the CA NSM Event Manager host from whose log the event was extracted.

&MONPRTY

Specifies Error, Warning, Info, Success, or Failure.

&MONTYPE

Twenty bytes from the CA NSM Facility field are combined with twenty bytes from the Category field, resulting in a value of Facility,Category.

&MSG, &WORD1, &WORD2, …

Specifies the entire message text associated with the event and the individual words of the message.

To monitor and process CA NSM Event Manager messages with CA Automation Point

  1. From the Configuration Manager main window, choose Expert Interface, Automation, Events Interface, CA NSM Event Manager Events.

    The CA NSM Event Manager Events dialog displays.

  2. Select the Monitor arbitrary messages from CA NSM event from the Type of Event list.
  3. Check the Enable Monitoring box.
  4. Add the CA NSM host that you want CA Automation Point to monitor and receive messages from.

    Select the host by using the Include button to move it from the Available Hosts list to the Selected Hosts list.

    Note: You can restrict the CA NSM messages that will be received and processed by highlighting the selected host and clicking the Filtering Criteria button.

  5. Click the Host Access Security button, and then specify a valid login user ID and password for the remote CA NSM host.
  6. Save your changes.
  7. Add a CA Automation Point rule similar to the following rule to take the desired action:
    MSGID(text that matches a CA NSM message)
    COLOR(RED)
    
  8. Restart CA Automation Point.