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Intel® Telco Alarms Manager 2.3 Telco Alarms Manager Event AgentsAppendix A: Glossary
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4. Telco Alarms Manager Event Agents
4.1 Overview
TAM is designed to work with software or modules that register with TAM. This registered
software is referred to as event agents. These event agents relay information to TAM so that
any problems that occur on a system are indicated by the LEDs on the alarm panel. A set of
TAM event agents is delivered as part of the TAM software package which are described in the
following sections.
4.2 Event Listener Agent
The Event Listener Agent is a service or daemon that runs if Firmware TAM is disabled.
This agent monitors events recorded in the server’s SEL (System Event Log). The event
listener agent was introduced with the TIGW1U server and wasn’t available for TIGI2U.
TIGI2U depends on the EMS Event Agent described in the following section, 4.3.
4.3 EMS Event Agent
ISM’s and ISMS’s EMS (Event Management System) Event Agent is installed by TAM. EMS is
the event management architecture for ISM versions 8.x and higher and ISMS 1.x and higher.
EMS monitors and provides information on several baseboard, hardware, and OS components.
Any exceeded thresholds or alerts that it receives are mapped and forwarded to TAM, which
illuminates corresponding status LEDs on the alarm panel. The following is a summary of some
of the hardware components monitored by the EMS. Please refer to ISM documentation for
more detailed information.
• Fan (failure, speed)
• Memory (single and multi-bit errors, ECC errors)
• Processor (thermal trips, internal errors, and caches)
• Temperature (baseboard and processor temperature)
• Voltage (standby, baseboard, and processors)
• Power supplies (presence, redundancy, and temperature)
• Network (network configuration and connection information)
• Storage (hard disk drives, CD-ROM drives, and RAID devices)
• Chassis (intrusion)