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Event Management

Event Management is a collection of management components that employ a single, easy‑to‑use graphical user interface (GUI) to monitor and administer different kinds of asynchronous events including SNMP traps, application events, and system events. The GUI included with Event Management on z/OS provides access to the Event Management Console, the management of Message Action records, and the management of calendars.

CA Common Services for z/OS Event Management augments z/OS automation solutions, such as CA OPS/MVS Event Management and Automation, by providing built‑in access to a wide range of distributed events and by allowing actions to be triggered on any CA Common Services equipped platform. CA Common Services for z/OS provides event correlation and event processing and is fully integrated with CA Common Services event management facilities on other platforms.

You can define specific Event Management policy to do the following:

• Respond to messages
• Suppress messages
• Issue CA Common Services for z/OS commands
• Start other programs or scripts
• Send information to a network management or automation application such as CA OPS/MVS Event Management and Automation
• Forward messages to other managed platforms
• Issue commands to be executed on other platforms
• Interpret the results of any action to decide if additional actions are warranted

Event Management can be configured to process messages on individual servers and redirect them to a central server or other servers and, by extension, their consoles. Event Management makes it easy to collect related messages throughout the network for display at a single location or send them to multiple locations, as needed.

The Event Console Log GUI window enables you to monitor system events as they occur. All running programs and user processes can direct inquiries and informative messages to this facility. It provides a complete view of processes across the network.