OSI/TS Management Programming Manual

Retrieving and Decoding Event Messages
SPI Programming Considerations for OSI/TS
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It is recommended that your application always use a filter when retrieving event
messages. Otherwise, the application will receive all the event messages sent to the
event log on the local system.
You can use any of the tokens contained in event messages to select which event
messages will be returned to your application. You can create filters that return only
critical event messages, or all messages associated with a particular device, or all
messages with a certain event number, and so forth.
For examples of filters you could use to select event messages related to the OSI/TS
subsystem, refer to Appendix C.
The Event Management Service (EMS) Manual provides information on how to code,
compile, load, and replace filters.