Fault and Event Management Solutions: Computer Associates

Company: Computer Associates
One Computer Associates Plaza
Islandia, NY 11788-7000
Telephone: 516-342-6000

Product Name: CA-Unicenter for Solaris

Product Description: The Event Manager feature of CA-Unicenter for Solaris provides a realtime event monitor, that tracks operating system, systems management and network activity. For example, in addition to our security violations, job activity, operating system problems and applications messages are all displayed through the event manager's graphical console.

Through the Event Manager, we can set policies that will tell CA-Unicenter to take one or more "actions" when selected messages are intercepted, such as: responding to the message; suppressing the message; issuing CA-Unicenter commands; starting other programs or scripts; sending information to network management software; forwarding the message to other managed platforms; issuing commands to be executed on other platforms; interpreting the results of any action to decide if additional actions are warranted.

For example, we might want to immediately notify the security administrator via email or paging if a violation occurs against the payroll master file. Message/action policies enable us to do this easily. The ability of the Event Manager to review messages and take actions enables automated operations, reducing the requirement for staff to monitor systems full time. It also provides interoperability with non-CA-Unicenter programs. A common implementation of interoperability is for an application to notify the Event Manager of events that might be worthy of opening a problem ticket for tracking.

Once an event has been forwarded to the Problem Management system, special CA-Unicenter Machine-Generated Problem Tracking (MGPT) policies determine if a problem condition exists. Once this is done, a problem ticket will be automatically opened containing the message, date, time and other pertinent information. Recovery procedures can then be triggered through the integrated Workload Manager or through Event Management actions.

Solaris Support: Solaris 2.x

Availability: Worldwide

Language: US English