HP UX B6941-90001 - Manual (Page 326)

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Integrating Applications into ITO
Integrating Applications into ITO
Application Logfile Encapsulation
Applications can be monitored by observing their logfiles. Logfile entries
can be forwarded into ITO, or suppressed. The message can be
restructured and ITO specific attributes can be set up. For more details
refer to the
Message Source Templates window of the ITO
administrator’s GUI.
NOTE Most applications running on Windows NT systems use Eventlogs. The
information in these databases can be extracted by the logfile
encapsulator, but there are some differences in the set-up procedure.
Refer to the ITO online help or the HP OpenView IT/Operations
Concepts Guide for more information.
Application Message Interception
The applications that ITO can make use of to integrate a message,
include:
❏ Logfiles
❏ SNMP traps
❏ opcmsg(1) command
❏ opcmsg(3) API
These messages can then be either suppressed or forwarded according to
the configuration of ITO. In addition, the message can be restructured,
and ITO-specific attributes set up. For MPE/iX systems, ITO also
supports console message interception.
For more details, see the Message Source Template window in the
administrator’s ITO GUI.
Server Message Stream Interface API
Applications can also register to receive messages on the management
server using the Message Stream Interface (MSI) API on the ITO
management server. This interface lets you plug in event correlation
engines, and statistical analysis tools to establish a link to other network
and system management applications.