OSI/AS Configuration and Management Manual

Management Environment

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EMS

EMS (Event Management Service) provides event collection, event logging, and event

distribution facilities for OSI/AS. EMS has both an interactive and a programmatic

interface.

All the OSI/AS subsystem processes, as well as other subsystem processes you may

have running, report significant events in the form of event messages and send them to

the EMS collector, which logs the messages. You can view all or selected event

messages reported to EMS. You can write filters to filter event messages for selective

printing or display on the operator console. You can use information retrieved from

EMS to monitor your OSI/AS subsystem and to recognize critical problems.

The event messages that the OSI/AS subsystem can issue are described in Operator

Messages: Distributed Systems Management (DSM) Display Format and Operator

Messages: Console Format. The tokens contained in each message are described in the

OSI/AS Management Programming Manual. For general information on the way an

application obtains event messages from a subsystem, see the Event Management

Service (EMS) Manual.

Trace Facility and PTrace

Using the SCF TRACE command, you can start and stop tracing of OSI/AS subsystem

processes. The trace information is gathered in trace files. You use the PTrace program

to select, format, and display the trace data. See Section 8, Troubleshooting Guide

, for a

discussion of how to use TRACE and PTrace for troubleshooting.

The PTrace Reference Manual gives general information on PTrace.

The OSI/AS SCF Reference Manual describes OSI/AS-specific information on TRACE

and PTrace.

SCF Command Interface

The following subsections give an overview of the SCF commands and objects that

apply to the OSI/AS subsystem. They describe some of the OSI/AS-specific points you

need to be aware of when managing your subsystem. The section then focuses on the

objects that you control by issuing SCF commands. To effectively manage your OSI/AS

subsystem, you must clearly understand how you use these objects to configure your

subsystem, to set up OSI addressing relationships, and to set protocol attributes within

different OSI layers.

You can find detailed descriptions of the SCF commands for this subsystem, the objects

to which they apply, and the syntax you use to invoke them in the OSI/AS SCF

Reference Manual.