Job Management Partner 1/Integrated Management - Manager Overview and System Design Guide

3.2.2 Event acquisition filter

An event acquisition filter is for selecting the JP1 events to be acquired from JP1/Base by JP1/IM - Manager (using the event base service). Multiple event acquisition filters can be defined on each manager, but only one of them can be applied.

Using an event acquisition filter, you can select the JP1 events that need to be acquired by JP1/IM - Manager. The following target JP1 events can be specified:

JP1 events monitored on the Monitor Events page or Severe Events page of the Event Console window

JP1 events that trigger automated actions

JP1 events that change the status of a monitoring object

JP1 events that issue a correlation event (correlation source events)

For example, in a system where the installed products issue a large number of normal events on a JP1/IM manager (such as events issued by JP1/AJS indicating successful job execution), the JP1 events essential to monitoring the system operation might be overlooked. In this type of situation, an event acquisition filter can be used to filter out normal events so that they will not be acquired.

Event acquisition filters reside in JP1/IM - Manager and can be set from JP1/IM - View. They affect all JP1/IM functions, including JP1 event monitoring, automated actions, and object status monitoring.

When you use the integrated monitoring database, the JP1 events selected by the event acquisition filter are saved in the integrated monitoring database.

Reference note

To display events in JP1/SES format in JP1/IM - View, you must change the event acquisition filter settings to acquire JP1/SES events. The default settings do not display JP1/SES events.

If you were using the event acquisition filter (for compatibility) in a previous version of JP1/IM, the filter works in a different position and operates differently from a standard event acquisition filter. Also, even if you are using the integrated monitoring database with the event acquisition filter (for compatibility), events are still selected by the event acquisition filter (for compatibility). For details, see the following:
12.2.1(1) Upgrading from the Central Console version 8
12.2.3(2) Upgrading from JP1/IM - Central Console version 7

If you are not using the integrated monitoring database, the event acquisition filter also applies to the event generation service.
The event generation service is inactive by default. When it is started, however, the filter definitions in effect for the event base service are also applied to the event generation service.
If you are using the event acquisition filter (for compatibility), the event generation service operates without any filter conditions.
For details about the event generation service, see 3.3 Issue of correlation events.

Setting multiple event acquisition filters

You can set multiple event acquisition filters.

For example, if you want to change the type of JP1 events collected or the host from which they are acquired according to the time of day (business hours or night time), you can set different event acquisition filters for the different times of day and switch between them.

Events issued when an event acquisition filter is switched

When you switch to a different event acquisition filter, JP1/IM - Manager issues JP1 events (event IDs 00003F13 and 00003F20) reporting the changed filter conditions. The messages give the name of the filter now in effect and the arrival time and serial number of the last event received by JP1/IM - Manager before the filter was switched.

These JP1 events (event IDs 00003F13 and 00003F20) report that the new event acquisition filter came into effect from the first event received by JP1/IM - Manager after the event corresponding to the arrival time and serial number given in the messages. That is, the filter change and JP1 event issue do not occur at the same time.

For example, if a large number of other JP1 events were issued at the time the filter was switched, there might be a delay before the JP1 events (event IDs 00003F13 and 00003F20) reporting the changed filter conditions appear in the Event Console window. This could mean that the first JP1 event acquired with the new filter appears before the JP1 events reporting the filter change.

To identify the first JP1 event acquired with the new event acquisition filter, check the messages (event IDs 00003F13 and 00003F20) to find the last JP1 event acquired before the change. (Subsequent JP1 events will have been acquired with the new event acquisition filter.)

For details about the JP1 events (event IDs 00003F13 and 00003F20), see 3. JP1 Events in the manual Job Management Partner 1/Integrated Management - Manager Command and Definition File Reference. Note that these JP1 events are not issued when the event acquisition filter is operating in compatibility mode.

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