EMS Manual

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Manual Organization
Section 9, Standard Events Describes the EMS events that subsystems and
applications generate to support operations management
on NonStop Kernel operating systems.
Section 10, Generating
Standard Events
Describes the steps involved in generating standard
events and provides an example using a fictitious
subsystem.
Section 11, Procedure Calls for
Standard Events
Describes procedure calls that help subsystems and
applications format standard events.
Part IV, Configuring and Maintaining EMS
Section 12, Configuring EMS Describes configuration requirements, options, and
strategies to help you make decisions about configuring
EMS components, based on the tasks to be performed and
the system resources available to perform them.
Section 13, EMS Programs
Describes the programs you can run to change the
configuration of or display status information about various
EMS components.
Section 14, EMS Definitions
Provides information that all programmers retrieving or
producing event messages need, such as definitions of the
standard EMS tokens.
Section 15, EMS Procedures
Describes the procedures used by management
applications to retrieve information from event messages
and the procedures used by subsystems to produce event
messages.
Section 16, Event Routing
Describes distribution of events to selected destinations.
Part V, Using EMS Distributors and Collectors
Section 17, Distributor
Commands and Responses
Describes the programmatic interfaces you use to perform
functions such as retrieving event messages from,
controlling, and inquiring about EMS distributors.
Section 18, Distributor Event
Messages
Describes the event messages produced by the distributor.
Section 19, Collector
Commands and Responses
Describes the programmatic interfaces you use for tasks
such as controlling and inquiring about EMS collectors.
Section 20, Collector Event
Messages
Describes the event messages produced by the primary
and alternate collectors.
Section 21, Distributor Errors
Describes the error numbers and error lists returned as
part of the programmatic interface to EMS distributors.
Section 22, Collector Errors
Describes the error numbers and error lists returned as
part of the programmatic interface to EMS collectors.
Part VI, EMS Example Files
Appendix A, Example of
Retrieving Event Messages
Provides a sample program that illustrates how to retrieve
event messages from an EMS distributor.