Using the Event Monitoring Service (June 2003)

Understanding the Event Monitoring Service
Client and Target Applications
Chapter 122
2. Specify when to collect the value. Select either and/or all:
• When value is ...
If you are setting up a request for an asynchronous monitor, this
is the only option available.
• When value changes
• At each interval
Select this option to send an event periodically, regardless of the
value.
Define a polling interval that is appropriate to your system
performance and reaction time needs. See Step 3.
3. Specify a polling interval for how often the monitor checks the
resource and reports the value.
This applies only to non-asynchronousmonitors and goes with the At
each interval option in Step 2.
4. Specify how often the monitor should check and send notification
about the resource:
The options are listed below.
• Initial option immediately checks and returns the resource
value regardless of threshold conditions
• Repeat option checks and returns the resource value at each
polling interval if threshold conditions have been met
• Return option checks and returns the resource value after a
threshold condition has been resolved and the threshold
condition is no longer true.
5. Specify the notification protocols:
• opcmsg (IT/O), by severity or map severity from values listed
• tcp or udp
• snmp trap, by severity or map severity from values listed
• email
• console
• syslog