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Event Types

Each event created in CA Performance Management includes event type and possibly event subtype information. This information helps CA Performance Management properly process events to keep you informed about the status and health of your infrastructure.

The standard event types provided in CA Performance Management include the following information:

• Poll event—applies to events that result from polling or the analysis of poll data
• Trap event—applies to events that result from trap inputs
• Threshold event—applies to events that threshold violations on your devices trigger
• Reconfiguration change—applies to devices that are created, destroyed, or modified
• Unknown event—indicates an event of unknown type
• Any—represents a special wildcard event type that notifies subscribers about every event that is submitted to the event engine The event engine in CA Performance Management is responsible for accepting event data and routing it to the appropriate destination.

Event types are automatically assigned upon event creation. However, CA Performance Management lets you define custom event types to help manage events consistently. Using custom event types, you can define event families that apply to your unique networking environment. When you create an event type, you determine the required attributes for that type. Thus, all events of a single event type consistently provide the same information.

After you create the custom event types, you can set up event normalization Event normalization is the process of capturing raw event data and mapping that data to a standard format for each event type. rules to map these raw events to your custom event types. With normalized events, you can ignore differences between vendors and versions when you define how to process events. Therefore, CA Performance Management can process normalized events to more specifically meet your management needs.

Note: For more information about events, see the CA Performance Center Operator Guide.