Administering Critical Events

This section contains the following topics:

NSMADM-Event Management chapter intro

Event Management, the focal point for integrated message management throughout your network, can monitor and consolidate message activity from a variety of sources. It lets you identify event messages that require special handling and initiate a list of actions for handling an event. Through support of industry-standard facilities, you can channel event messages from any node in your network to one or more monitoring nodes. You can centralize management of many servers and ensure the detection and appropriate routing of important events.

For example, you may want to route message traffic to different event managers:

Event and workload messages to the production control event manager
Security messages to the security administrator's event manager
Problem messages to the help desk administrator's event manager

By filtering messages that appear on each console, you can retrieve specific information about a particular node, user, or workstation.

Wireless Messaging provides alternate channels for operator input in situations where the operator cannot access a CA Event Console. The supported messaging protocols are email and pager. Using the SMTP/POP3 mail messaging protocol, you can send and receive pager messages from two-way pager devices. An incoming message can trigger any series of actions you define for Event Console to perform in response to it.

Successfully implementing Event Management involves the following activities:

Establishing date and time controls for automated event processing
Trapping important event messages and assigning actions
Putting Event Management policies into effect
Monitoring message traffic
Controlling access to messages
Providing Wireless Message Delivery
Using SNMP to monitor activity
Implementing maintenance considerations

Note: For more information about Event Management, see the guide Inside Event Management and Alert Management.