Open System Services NFS Management and Operations Guide

Figure 6 EMS Components and Event-Message Routing
Managing event messages involves choosing among these options for viewing them:
• Use workstation software with a built-in event viewer, such as the CA-Unicenter product.
• Use a Web-based event viewer.
• Use the ViewPoint application, which offers several event-display screens and supports methods
for changing these screens. For more information, see the ViewPoint Manual.
• Run a printing distributor, which writes event messages to a printer, a file, or other output
destination. Examples of this approach are discussed in “Displaying Current Event Messages”,
“Displaying Saved Event Messages”, and “Creating Event Filters”.
• Read the event message display produced on the operator console, which is controlled by
the compatibility distributor ($0).
Displaying Current Event Messages
To display current event messages, run a printing distributor by issuing this TACL command, where
the TEXTOUT target ($TERM1) is your terminal:
EMSDIST /NAME $DIST1/ TYPE PRINTING, COLLECTOR $0, &
TEXTOUT $TERM1
The preceding example is an implicit RUN command that assumes the program EMSDIST is located
on $SYSTEM.SYSTEM, that the name of the collector is $0, and that the name of your terminal is
$TERM1. To stop the distributor, press the Break key on your terminal keyboard, and then use the
TACL STOP command to terminate the distributor.
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