Event Management

Event Management facilities provide a focal point for integrated message management throughout your heterogeneous network. They can monitor and consolidate message activity from a variety of sources. They let you identify event messages that require special handling and initiate a list of actions specified for handling those events.

You can channel event messages from any node in your network to one or more monitoring nodes through the support of industry standard facilities. This makes it easy to centralize management of many servers, and ensure that important events are detected and routed to where they can be acted on most expeditiously.

For example, you can route message traffic to three different event servers by directing event and workload messages to the event manager for production control, security messages to the event manager for the security administrator, and problem messages to the event manager for the help desk administrator. Further, by filtering the messages that appear on each console, you can retrieve specific information about a particular node, user, or workstation.

This section contains the following topics:

File Structure Considerations on z/OS

Usage Considerations on z/OS

Event Management Messaging Examples

Unicenter Browser Interface

Implementation Process

Protecting Event Management under HFS Security

Event Management Utilities