Job Management Partner 1/Base User's Guide

1.4 Sending and receiving events with the event service

Each host in a system might encounter various events, such as Not enough disk space or Communication error occurred. These events are reported to JP1/Base, where they can be managed. These events are referred to as JP1 events.

The JP1/Base event service can be used for the following:

• Storing JP1 events in the event database
  When JP1/Base receives JP1 events, it stores them in a file called the event database. Each host with JP1/Base has its own event database.
  
• Forwarding JP1 events to other hosts
  The JP1 events generated at each host can be forwarded to a management server at a higher level in the hierarchy. You can choose which JP1 events you want to forward to higher-level management servers. Forwarding events helps the management server monitor the status of each host and promptly detect any problems that might exist, dealing with them immediately.
  JP1/Base can also automatically re-forward JP1 events that were not sent the first time due to a transmission error caused by a network error or by the event server not running.
  
• Maintaining partial upward compatibility with the event services provided by the pre-Version 6 programs, JP1/SES and JP1/AJS
  Events issued by JP1/SES (a program in version 5 and earlier) running under UNIX, and events issued via commands executed in JP1/AJS (another program in version 5 and earlier) running under Windows NT, can also be acquired.
  

A program called the event server manages the above features. When the event server is active, JP1 events can be sent and received.

Organization of this section

1.4.1 JP1 events acquired by JP1/Base

1.4.2 Event database

1.4.3 Forwarding JP1 events

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