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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
Configure connectors for the common event console
The common event console is a Tivoli Enterprise Portal view that provides a single, integrated display of events from multiple event systems. In one table, the common event console presents events from the event systems, and users can sort, filter, and perform actions on these events. The following event systems are supported:
- IBM Tivoli Monitoring
- IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console
- IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus
A common event connector (frequently called a connector) is software that enables the integrated display of events from multiple event systems in the common event console. A connector retrieves event data from an event system and sends user-initiated actions to be run in that event system. For example, if you perform an action on a Tivoli Enterprise Console or Netcool/OMNIbus event in the common event console, the associated common event console connector sends that action to the originating event system (Tivoli Enterprise Console or Netcool/OMNIbus) for execution. To have the events from a specific event system displayed in the common event console, you must configure a connector for that event system and set a variable in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server environment file.
- Common Event Console Configuration window
Use the Common Event Console Configuration window to configure a common event console connector for each of your event system instances. Because the connector for the IBM Tivoli Monitoring product is pre-configured when you install the product, the common event console includes situation events by default. However, to have IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console or IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus events included in the common event console, you must configure a connector for each of these event systems after you install the IBM Tivoli Monitoring product. This configuration includes specifying which event systems are used to obtain events for display in the common event console. You might also want to change some of the configuration values for the IBM Tivoli Monitoring connector.
- Best practices for using event synchronization
In your environment, if Tivoli Monitoring events are forwarded to the Tivoli Enterprise Console or Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus event system for the purpose of event synchronization, configure the common event connectors to retrieve only one copy of the same event to avoid having duplicate event information in the common event console.
- Troubleshooting problems with connection to Tivoli Enterprise Console server on Linux systems
The following information can be used to troubleshoot problems with connection to Tivoli Enterprise Console server on a Linux system.