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-orientedservice 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:

vGreater scalability, meaning you can manage many sources easier, with less software running on the endpoints.

vGreatly 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.

vEasier 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:

vUNIX log file

vOS/2®

vSNMP

vMicrosoft Windows event log

vWindows 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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Enterprise Console specifications

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