Computer Associates


CA-Unicenter for Solaris


One Computer Associates Plaza
Islandia, New York 11788 USA

Tel: 516-342-6000
Fax: 516-342-5737


The Event Manager feature provides a realtime event monitor that tracks operating system, systems management and network activity. For example, in addition to security violations, job activity and operating system problems as well as 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, if a violation against the payroll master file occurs, message/action policies enable us to easily immediately notify the security administrator via email or paging. The ability of the Event Manager to review messages and take actions enables automated operations, reducing the staff requirements to monitor systems fulltime. Once the event has been forwarded to the Problem Management system, special CA-Unicenter Machine- Generated Problem Tracking (MGPT) policies determine if a problem condition exists. Then 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 version: 2.3 and 2.4

Solstice application/version: Solstice SNM 2.2

Type of integration: Console Menu Interface