Using the Event Monitoring Service (November 1999)

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Glossary
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alert An event. A message sent to
tell a user or application when that
certain conditions are met, an
action or state you want to know
about. For example, you may want
to be alerted when a disk fails or
when available filesystem space
falls below a certain level.
asynchronous monitor A
monitor that monitors resource
instances (or resource class)
asynchronously. It is event driven
and send notifications when events
occur. It does not keep track of the
current state or value of each
resource it monitors.
client Theapplicationthat creates
or cancels requests to monitor
particular resources. The
consumer of a resource status
message. A user of the Resource
Monitor framework. This user may
browse resources, request status,
and make requests to have
resourcesmonitored.Examples are
MC/ServiceGuard as it starts a
package or the SAM interface to
EMS.
dictionary See Resource
Dictionary.
Event Monitoring Service
(EMS) A means to create requests,
monitor, and report events about
resources on a system. EMS
observes a system and does not
modify it.
EMS Framework A set of APIs
together with the registrar process
and the resource dictionary, which
allows client applications to
request that resources be
monitored and a target application
be notified.
EMS API The interface between
the registrar, client applications,
target applications, and resource
monitors.
EMS GUI The SAM interface to
EMS. One type of a client
application, use it to create
monitoring requests.
event An alert.
HA High Availability.
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