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Event Polling

The Event Traffic Controller polling manager is automatically started during CA Automation Point startup if you have configured any events to be monitored. The polling manager controls the polling of external sources of events. The polling manager launches up to four Event Manager polling processes for each Event Manager host that is to be monitored and one Windows event log polling process for each Windows event log to be monitored.

Each Event Manager polling process detects whether Event Manager can be reached and whether CA Automation Point is running. When both components can be reached, an Event Manager polling process connects to the Event Manager log and reads a message stream. Each Windows event log polling process operates in a similar fashion.

Each polling process submits messages to the rules engine for processing. This action is similar to performing an ADDRESS AXC MSG operation from a REXX program.

The following diagram illustrates this process: