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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. Event Management makes it easy to collect related messages network wide for display at a single location or to send them to multiple locations as needed. 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.

Note: Message Actions and calendars are Event Management options that require the installation of CA Datacom/AD.

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. CA Common Services for z/OS also has several SDK functions, including command line and batch interfaces.

You can define a 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 whether additional actions are warranted.

Event Management may be configured to process messages on individual servers and redirect the messages to a central server or other servers. Event Management makes it easy to collect related messages network wide for display at a single location or to send to multiple locations as needed.

The Event Console Log provides a view of system events and processes as they occur across the network. All running programs and user processes can direct inquiries and informative messages to the log.