OSI/MHS Management Programming Manual

Communicating with the OSI/MHS Processes
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Running an EMS Consumer Distributor
management application. You need to open the consumer distributor for SPI
communication, and then specify the source of event messages with a CONTROL
command. The EMS Manual provides full details.
To avoid receiving all event messages from all subsystems (something you will rarely
want to do), you must install a filter to select only those messages your application
intends to act upon. You install your filter when you start the consumer distributor.
Filters are written in the EMS filter language, which is described in the EMS Manual.
Appendix C, Examples
, provides an example of a filter that you could use for events
generated by OSI/MHS and related subsystems. This appendix also provides a sample
program that starts an EMS consumer distributor and performs the other steps discussed
above.