EMS Manual

EMS Manual—426909-005
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About This Manual
This manual describes the Event Management Service (EMS)—a collection of
processes, tools, and interfaces that provide event-message collection and distribution
in the Distributed Systems Management (DSM) environment. This manual is intended
for programmers, operators, and those who configure and manage systems and
networks.
This manual describes information for:
Manual Organization
This manual contains introductory, explanatory, and reference material for all aspects
of EMS. Not all sections are of interest to every reader. Later in this section, you will
find some guidelines to help you select which sections are likely to be of interest to
you.
Server Type Product Version Supported RVUs
HP NonStop S-series T9631F40 G00.00 and later G-series RVUs
HP NonStop K-series T9631D31 D30.02 and later D-series RVUs
Part I, Introduction to EMS
Section 1, Introduction to EMS Introduces the EMS product within the NonStop Kernel
and DSM environments.
Section 2, EMS Components
and Architecture
Introduces the components of EMS and describes their
relationships.
Part II, Using EMS
Section 3, Retrieving Event
Messages Interactively
Describes how event messages can be viewed.
Section 4, Retrieving Event
Messages Programmatically
Describes the task of writing a program to retrieve event
information from EMS.
Section 5, Compiled Filters
Describes compiled filters, the EMF filter language, and
the EMF compiler.
Section 6, Filter Tables and
Burst Filters
Describes filter tables and burst filters.
Section 7, Burst Detection and
Suppression
Describes burst detection and suppression (BDS)
functionality and configuration guidelines.
Part III, Designing and Implementing Event Reporting
Section 8, Reporting Events Describes how to write a subsystem to create and send
event messages.