Event Management › Usage Considerations on z/OS

Usage Considerations on z/OS

Event Management on z/OS can be thought of as the following processes:

• logrdr - Responsible for listening for messages from various sources: syslogd, CA, messages generated using the EM API, and messages routed by remote applications.
• caiopr - Responsible for creating the CA Event Management console from the various message sources. Store-and-forward is controlled by caiopr.
• ca_calendar - Responsible for determining if a specific calendar is active or inactive based on the current date and time. If a message action is assigned a calendar profile, then ca_calendar must be active for the action to be taken.
• stardaemon - Responsible for transmitting data from the z/OS computer to a remote Windows computer. When trying to connect using the Windows GUI, this process is responsible for doing the log on.
• catrapd - Responsible for listening for SNMP traps. Traps received are displayed on the CA Event Management console.

The z/OS version does not provide such components as workload or security, which are best left to existing technologies already present on the mainframe.

There are other general implementation considerations related to these processes as well.