EMS Manual

Generating Standard Events
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Task 4.2: Specify Which Operations Are Defined for
Your Management Functions
Task 4.2: Specify Which Operations Are Defined for Your
Management Functions
Specify in detail the operations or tasks—for example, problem detection and isolation
for the reactive problem management function—that a user or program needs to
perform for each of your management functions.
Task 4.3: Specify the System Data Needed to Automate These
Operations
Define the data items (for example, operating system data items) needed to support
the operations defined for your management function:

Define data items in general terms, not specific to one instrumentation platform like
EMS or Measure.

Specify the type and semantics of the data items.
Example: Defining System Data for Reactive Problem
Management
This example illustrates the process of determining the operating system data to
support the operations in reactive problem management.
Capacity and
Performance
Management
(or Proactive
Problem
Management)
Effective delivery of the information
system’s service to end users.
Potential problems indicated by
functions: performance monitoring
analysis and tuning, accounting
and billing, capacity planning,
workload balancing, and network
design.
Measure Functions
that help
manage
transient
faults and
critical
resource
usage in a
system
Security
Management
Management of user
authentication, access
authorization, audit administration,
and data protection.
Safeguard None
Configuration
and Change
Management
Planning, design, creation,
validation, and application of
changes to configurations.
DSM/SCM, SCF,
PATHCOM,
TMFCOM,
TAPECOM, DSC,
and SYSGEN
None
Management
Area Definition
Software Providing
Function
EMS
Support?