IBM Enterprise Console - Manual (Page 5)

Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Who Should Read This Guide . . . . . . . . vii
What This Guide Contains . . . . . . . . . vii
Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console Library . . . . viii
Prerequisite Publications. . . . . . . . . viii
Related Publications . . . . . . . . . . viii
Accessing Publications Online . . . . . . . ix
Providing Feedback about Publications . . . . ix
Contacting Customer Support . . . . . . . . ix
Conventions Used in this Guide . . . . . . . ix
Typeface Conventions . . . . . . . . . . ix
Operating System-dependent Variables and Paths x
Chapter 1. Understanding Adapters . . . 1
Adapter Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
How Events Get Sent to the Event Server. . . . 1
How Events Get to the Event Server From an
Endpoint
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
How Events Get to the Event Server From a
Managed Node
. . . . . . . . . . . 3
How Events Get to the Event Server From a
Non-TME Adapter .
. . . . . . . . . 3
Internationalization Support for Events . . . . . 3
Event Information . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Event Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Adapter Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Cache File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Configuration File . . . . . . . . . . . 9
File Location . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
File Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Keywords . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Event Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Regular Expressions in Filters . . . . . 15
Event Filter Examples . . . . . . . . 15
Event Buffer Filtering . . . . . . . . . 15
Event Buffer Filter Examples . . . . . 16
BAROC File . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Rule File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Format File . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Class Definition Statement File . . . . . . . 18
Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Error File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Initial Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Troubleshooting Adapters . . . . . . . . . 21
Adapter Startup Errors . . . . . . . . . 21
All Adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Managed Node Adapters . . . . . . . . . 21
Endpoint Adapters . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Non-TME Adapters. . . . . . . . . . . 22
Chapter 2. AS/400 Alert Adapter . . . . 23
Adapter Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Configuration File . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Class Definition Statement File . . . . . . . 25
SELECT Statement Example . . . . . . . 25
FETCH Statement Example . . . . . . . 25
Keywords . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Configuring the AS/400 Alert Filters . . . . . . 26
Default Alert Filter . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Integrating with an Existing Alert Filter . . . . 27
Starting the Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . 27
STRTECADP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Stopping the Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . 29
ENDTECADP . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Events Listing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Event Class Structure . . . . . . . . . . 32
Troubleshooting the AS/400 Adapter . . . . . . 34
Logging Events in Test Mode . . . . . . . . 35
TCP/IP Considerations . . . . . . . . . . 35
Starting an AS/400 Adapter after an IPL . . . . 35
Adding an Autostart Job to QSYSWRK . . . . 35
Changing the AS/400 Startup Program . . . . 36
Multiple AS/400 Alert Adapters . . . . . . . 36
Configuration File . . . . . . . . . . . 37
POSTEMSG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Chapter 3. AS/400 Message Adapter . . 39
Adapter Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Configuration File . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Class Definition Statement File . . . . . . . 41
SELECT Statement Example . . . . . . . 41
FETCH Statement Example . . . . . . . 41
MAP Statement Example . . . . . . . . 41
Keywords . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Starting the Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . 45
STRTECADP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Stopping the Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . 47
ENDTECADP . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Events Listing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Event Class Structure . . . . . . . . . . 50
Troubleshooting the AS/400 Adapter . . . . . . 51
Logging Events in Test Mode . . . . . . . . 51
TCP/IP Considerations . . . . . . . . . . 51
Starting an AS/400 Adapter after an IPL . . . . 52
Adding an Autostart Job to QSYSWRK . . . . 52
Changing the AS/400 Startup Program . . . . 52
Multiple AS/400 Message Queues . . . . . . . 53
Configuration File . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Using FTP to Execute AS/400 Commands . . . . 53
Chapter 4. NetWare Log File Adapter 55
NetWare Log File Adapter Reference Information. . 55
Adapter Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Error File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Prefiltering NetWare Events . . . . . . . . . 56
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