NonStop S-Series Operations Guide (G06.24+)

Monitoring EMS Event Messages
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What Is the Event Management Service (EMS)?
What Is the Event Management Service (EMS)?
The Event Management Service (EMS) is a collection of processes, tools, and
interfaces that support the reporting and retrieval of event information. Information
retrieved from EMS can help you to:
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Monitor your system or network environment
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Analyze circumstances that led up to a problem
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Detect failure patterns
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Adjust for changes in the run-time environment
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Recognize and handle critical problems
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Perform many other tasks required to maintain a productive computing operation
Tools for Monitoring EMS Event Messages
To view EMS event messages for a NonStop S-series server, use one of these tools:
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EMSDIST
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OSM Event Viewer
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TSM Event Viewer
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ViewPoint
EMSDIST
The EMSDIST program is the object program for a printing, forwarding, or consumer
distributor, any of which you can start with a TACL RUN command. This guide does not
describe using EMSDIST. For more information, see the Guardian User’s Guide.
OSM Event Viewer
The OSM Event Viewer is a browser-based event viewer, more like Web ViewPoint
than the TSM Event Viewer. The OSM Event Viewer allows you to retrieve and view
events from any EMS formatted log files ($0, $ZLOG, or an alternate collector) for
rapid assessment of operating system problems.
To access the OSM Event Viewer, refer to Launching OSM and TSM Applications on
page 1-11. For more about the OSM Event Viewer, including a comparison with TSM
Event Viewer, see the OSM Migration Guide. For details on how to use the OSM Event
Viewer, refer to the online help.
TSM Event Viewer
Use the TSM Event Viewer to view a chronological list of events generated by
processors, processes, and subsystems.
The TSM Event Viewer allows you to view EMS log files using multiple views that you
can customize. These various views permit rapid assessment of operating system