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Events

An event is a message that indicates an occurrence or change in your enterprise. Events can indicate a negative occurrence or object state change. CA SOI Event Management lets you view and manage events that are received from all connectors. CA SOI collects events from various types of event sources:

• Domain managers that manage alerts indicating problems with their domain. Domain managers can include CA Spectrum for network faults, CA eHealth for network performance, CA NSM WorldView for system faults, and CA Application Performance Management for application performance
• High-volume raw event sources, such as CA NSM Event Management, SNMP traps, and IBM Tivoli Netcool

All collected events and alerts initially become events in CA SOI and are maintained in Event Stores that are distributed across the environment. The CA SOI Event Management component lets you manage a large event stream by exception using event policy to correlate, filter, and enrich events from any or all event sources. Event Management lets you control the types of information from the event stream that are displayed as actionable CA SOI alerts.