Availability Guide for Problem Management

Monitoring Event Messages
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Step 4—Writing Operations and Recovery
Procedures
Creating EMS Event Filters
To make a filter for a forwarding, printing, or consumer distributor, you can create an
edit file containing the filter-language constructs that express your selection criteria. You
then use the filter-language compiler (EMF) to generate an object file suitable for
loading to the distributor. Once the filter specification is loaded, the distributor uses it to
decide whether to pass each event message to its destination. For more information
about using the EMS filter language and compiler, refer to the EMS Manual.
Step 4—Writing Operations and Recovery Procedures
After analyzing and filtering your application event messages, you need to define the
operational policy and recovery steps for each critical event.
Creating Separate Event Monitoring Environments
Because the number of application event messages can far outnumber the system event
messages generated, it is sometimes advisable to create a second monitoring
environment dedicated to specific applications. Figure 4-3 shows a sample system and
application event management architecture.