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Message Sources

Messages can be directed to Event Management from a variety of sources:

• The cawto command sends a message to the Event Console.
• The cawtor command sends a message to the Event Console and waits for a reply. The message appears in the held messages pane and will not be deleted until the operator replies.
• The oprcmd command sends a request to execute a command to the designated target computers.
• The careply command replies to a message held by the Event Console.
• Enterprise Management components such as Workload Management, Security Management, and File Management generate messages directly to the Event Console.
• SNMP event messages and traps are routed to the node identified by the caiopr daemon as the provider for the Event Management service through the CA trap daemon, catrapd.
• On z/OS UNIX platforms, messages from the syslog daemon are routed through the syslog daemon to the Event Console. Messages issued through the logger utility are included as they also use the syslog daemon. These messages may have originated on a platform not running CA Common Services for z/OS. (Messages issued by CA Common Services for z/OS components are sent directly to the Event Console, not through syslog, in order to take advantage of message matching fields.)
• Agent Technology policies issue messages to the Event Console.

Note: For more information about the cawto, cawtor, oprcmd, careply, and catrapd commands, see Event Management Commands in the Reference Guide.