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Message Activity Distribution

Event Management lets you distribute message and action activity across multiple servers and their clients. You can:

• Create a central event log from which all servers can be monitored.
• Send selected messages to another server for processing.
• Manage special functions such as security or tape management on dedicated consoles.

Whenever the Management Database is loaded, it checks the EVALNODE of every message record against its own node name. If its node name matches the EVALNODE of the message record, the record and all associated message actions are read into memory. If there is no match, the message record is ignored. The set of message records and message actions read into memory constitute the Event policy for the current execution of the Event daemon until the policy is reloaded by a restart or the opreload command.