OSI/FTAM Configuration and Management Manual

FTAM Management Environment

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EMS Interface

A collector process within EMS (either the primary process or the alternate process, or

both) collects event messages from APLMGR, FTAM initiator, and FTAM responder

processes and writes those events to a log file within EMS. EMS distributor processes

read the event log file, which also contains event messages from other subsystems. Each

distributor process uses filters to select subsets of messages for routing to various

destinations. The distributor process compares messages in the event log file to its filter

and distributes only those that satisfy the conditions of the filter.

EMS printing and consumer distributor processes read the log file and distribute event

messages—displayable as operator messages—to printers, log files, terminals, and

applications that retrieve and display event-message text (such as the ViewPoint

application). Messages are displayed in DSM display format, which includes a message

number and subsystem ID. EMS forwarding distributor processes read the log file and

distribute event messages to other Tandem systems on the Expand network.

The remainder of this subsection discusses event messages and how to use them in the

Tandem FTAM management environment. For more information on alternate collectors,

see Section 4, Managing the FTAM Configuration