Writing Monitors for the Event Monitoring Service (December 1999)

Chapter 1 9
Understanding the Event Monitoring Service
1 Understanding the Event
Monitoring Service
The Event Monitoring Service (EMS) provides a mechanism for
monitoring system resources and sending notifications about these
system resources when they change in an observable way. This
document, Writing Monitors for the Event Monitoring Service, describes
how to create resource monitors that work with EMS. This section
describes the EMS components and the monitor components. Included in
this section is the following information:
• Event Monitoring Service Overview
• EMS Requirements
• EMS Resource Classes
• Client and Target Applications
• Resource Monitors
• EMS Framework Components