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Chapter 2. AS/400 Alert Adapter
The AS/400 alert adapter forwards events from an AS/400 system to the event
server. The adapter can be registered with the startup configuration of the AS/400
so that the adapter is started with all the other applications when the system is
started.
The AS/400 alert adapter is a program that does the following:
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Monitors AS/400 alert filters (using data queues) for alerts
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Extracts information from the alerts
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Creates IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console events, using a class definition statement
(CDS) file
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Filters IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console events that are not important, using a
configuration file
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Sends IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console events to an event server (using TCP/IP
sockets) that runs user-created rules against these events
AS/400 alert events can be gathered from any alert filter, or from the supplied
default filter. Multiple AS/400 alert adapters can be running at the same time, each
monitoring a different filter.
A few of the benefits are as follows:
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Consolidates alert monitoring
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Integrates with existing AS/400 alert filters already defined to your specific
business rules
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Filters out SNA (Systems Network Architecture) alerts that are not important
and only notifies the Tivoli operators when something critical happens
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Automatically acts on events using customer defined rules and tasks (using the
event server)
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Centrally configures adapter files that can be sent to the remote AS/400s
Adapter Files
The AS/400 alert adapter package consists of the following files:
/QSYS.LIB/QUSRSYS.LIB/CFG_ALERT.FILE/ALRCFG.MBR
The configuration file
/QSYS.LIB/QUSRSYS.LIB/CFG_ALERT.FILE/ALRCDS.MBR
The CDS file
/QSYS.LIB/QUSRSYS.LIB/CFG_ALERT.FILE/ALRBRC.MBR
The BAROC file
/QSYS.LIB/QUSRSYS.LIB/CFG_ALERT.FILE/ALRRLS.MBR
The rules file
Make a backup copy of the CFG_ALERT file before modifying the contents of any
of the members.
A backup copy of this file also resides in the CFG_ALERT file in library
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