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:

vMonitors AS/400 alert filters (using data queues) for alerts

vExtracts information from the alerts

vCreates IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console events, using a class definition statement (CDS) file

vFilters IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console events that are not important, using a configuration file

vSends 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:

vConsolidates alert monitoring

vIntegrates with existing AS/400 alert filters already defined to your specific business rules

vFilters out SNA (Systems Network Architecture) alerts that are not important and only notifies the Tivoli operators when something critical happens

vAutomatically acts on events using customer defined rules and tasks (using the event server)

vCentrally 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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