Job Management Partner 1/Integrated Management - Manager Quick Reference

1.3.2 Verifying that central monitoring of the system was achieved

From the manager, check to see whether the Central Console functions listed in Table 1-1 and the JP1/Base forwarding filter are set up correctly.

Event filtering:

The following explains how to check the Central Console filters and the JP1/Base forwarding filter.

Event acquisition filter:

See 2.3.2 Verifying that events from unmonitored hosts are not displayed. This subsection explains how to check filtering when common exclusion conditions are used in the event acquisition filter.

Event receiver filter:

By default, this filter displays all events in the events list. Use the following procedure to check whether events are being displayed.

To check whether events are being displayed:

1. Execute the JP1/Base jevsend command twice as shown below:
   jevsend -e SEVERITY=Warning -m Warning Event
   jevsend -e SEVERITY=Information -m Information Event
   An event of severity level Warning and an event of severity level Information are issued from the management server.
   
2. View the events list.
   For this example, verify that an event of severity level Warning and an event of severity level Information are displayed.
   

Severe events filter:

By default, this filter displays only events of severity level Emergency, Alert, Critical, and Error in the events list. Use the following procedure to check whether these events are being displayed.

To check whether Emergency, Alert, Critical, and Error events are being displayed:

1. Using the procedure given in 1.2.2 Verifying that you can execute a command, enter the following settings in the Execute Command window.
   

   Item	Setting to enter
   Target host	hostA
   Command	jevsend -e SEVERITY=Alert -m Alert Event jevsend -e SEVERITY=Warning -m Warning Event

   On host A, an event of severity level Alert and an event of severity level Warning are issued.
   
2. Check the Severe Events page in the Event Console window of Central Console.
   For this example, verify that an event of severity level Alert is displayed and that an event of severity level Warning is not displayed.
   

View filter:

See 2.1.2 Verifying that the events that match the conditions are displayed.

Forwarding filter:

By default, this filter forwards only events of severity level Emergency, Alert, Critical, and Error. Use the following procedure to check whether these events are being forwarded.

To check whether Emergency, Alert, Critical, and Error events are being forwarded:

1. Using the procedure given in 1.2.2 Verifying that you can execute a command, enter the following settings in the Execute Command window.
   

   Item	Setting to enter
   Target host	hostA
   Command	jevsend -e SEVERITY=Warning -m Warning Event jevsend -e SEVERITY=Information -m Information Event

   On host A, an event of severity level Warning and an event of severity level Information are issued.
   
2. Check the events list
   For this example, verify that an event of severity level Warning is displayed and that an event of severity level Information is not displayed.
   

Correlation event generation:

See 3.1.2 Verifying that the correlation event is generated.

Automated actions:

See 3.2.2 Verifying that the command was executed and 3.3.2 Verifying that the same action does not execute repeatedly.

Keywords:

central monitoring, Central Console, event, monitoring, logical

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