EMS Manual

Generating Standard Events
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Task 4.1: Determine Management Functions and If
EMS Is the Appropriate Platform
events, but it could provide a better focus for your existing events and might help
identify enhancements to those events.
Task 4.1: Determine Management Functions and If EMS Is the
Appropriate Platform
Management functions in an operations environment can be grouped into three areas,
largely consistent with the:

ISO Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Architecture

IBM SystemView Architecture

HP System Management Strategy
Different mechanisms are available for reporting system data:
Determine which management area your management functions belong in and
whether EMS is the appropriate platform:
Report Mechanism Reported Information
EMS Discrete system situations (hardware/software failures)
MEASURE System information in aggregate form
Management
Area Definition
Software Providing
Function
EMS
Support?
Problem
Management
(or Reactive
Problem
Management)
Detection of a system problem and
managing that problem through its
final resolution.
TMDS or TSM (for
support hardware
failures)
All functions
Production
Management
Management of the production
environment. Functions include
data integrity and availability, as
well as storage, printer, and batch
management.
The Disk Process,
Tape Management
System, Spooler,
and NetBatch
Production
requests that
require
operator
attention