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How the Event Management Utilities Process Works

When an application generates an Event Management message, it uses one of the supplied application program interfaces (APIs) (assembler or C/C++) to direct messages to the Event Management Utilities. Depending on the particular platforms involved, there can be many different techniques for communicating with Event Management. Currently, these Event Management transports are supported:

SNMP

Enables messages to form formal SNMP traps, which can then be routed to Event Management or other network managers.

SYSLOGD

Enables messages to be routed to the syslog daemon. The daemon is an IBM-supplied UNIX process that can be configured to route messages to Event Management.

CA Common Services for z/OS Event Management

Enables messages to be processed directly without using a transport such as SYSLOGD, WTO, or SNMP. Event Management has an optional store-and-forward feature that guarantees message delivery.

The Event Management Utilities evaluate each message against a user-supplied configuration policy, and depending on the options selected, reformats and broadcasts the message to Event Management using one or more of the message transports. This flexibility provides you with granular control over message processing and integration with Event Management.

Use the Event Management Utilities configuration statements to:

• Selectively route messages to Event Management according to pattern matching on the message text and other message context fields.
• Suppress or ignore certain messages.
• Reformat messages, for example, by converting between different code page values.
• Selectively redirect messages to a variety of non-CA systems using one of the message transports.

Note: Wherever possible, applications should interface directly with Event Management rather than using Framework Event Management Utilities, which is intended for special cases when an application cannot use Event Management directly.