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bundles them up and forwards them on to an event server. A TME interface is
used for communications. The IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console gateway uses a
connection-oriented
service to the server by default. A connection-oriented service
means that a connection is established when the adapter is initialized and the
connection is maintained for all events to be sent. The IBM Tivoli Enterprise
Console gateway runs on the same managed node as the Tivoli Management
Framework gateway that is providing the endpoint gateway service. The IBM
Tivoli Enterprise Console gateway provides the following benefits:
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Greater scalability, meaning you can manage many sources easier, with less
software running on the endpoints.
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Greatly reduces the amount of communications tasks performed by the event
server or the Tivoli management region server, as the IBM Tivoli Enterprise
Console gateway bundles a number of events before sending them to the event
server. This improves event server performance.
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Easier deployment of adapters and updates to adapters using profiles in the
Adapter Configuration Facility (ACF).
The TME adapters currently supported for an endpoint are the following:
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UNIX log file
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OS/2
®
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SNMP
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Microsoft Windows event log
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Windows NT event log
You configure these adapters to send their events to specific primary, secondary or
both event servers, and the IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console gateway forwards them
appropriately. If the IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console gateway, Tivoli Management
Framework gateway, or lcfd process is down, events are buffered at the endpoint.
The events are re-sent when communication is restored and the next event is sent.
If an event server is down (but the IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console gateway, Tivoli
Management Framework gateway, and lcfd processes are still up), events are
buffered at the IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console gateway. They are re-sent when
communication with the server is restored and the next event is sent.
The IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console gateway has configuration options that can be
specified similarly to how configuration options are specified for an adapter; that
is, you can configure the IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console gateway with a
configuration file that you distribute to the gateway node endpoint. For details
about configuring an IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console gateway, see Chapter 8, “IBM
Tivoli Enterprise Console Gateways” on page 95.
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