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IBM Tivoli Monitoring Event Synchronization component
You must install the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Event Synchronization component regardless of the architectural solution you choose for event integration between the hub monitoring server and Netcool/OMNIbus.
This component consists of the following three parts:
The rules file for the probe maps a subset of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring EIF slots to OMNIbus ObjectServer attributes to create an OMNIbus event. The SQL files update the Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer database schema to contain IBM Tivoli Monitoring specific attributes and create or update the triggers that process IBM Tivoli Monitoring events as well as forward events to the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Situation Update Forwarder when using bidirectional communication. The IBM Tivoli Monitoring Situation Update Forwarder is used to forward updates to the situation events, back to the originating hub monitoring server via SOAP messages.
- rules file for the Netcool/OMNIbus Probe for Tivoli EIF.
- Used to update the probe so it can understand IBM Tivoli Monitoring situation events.
- SQL files to update the Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer database.
- Used to update the Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer database schema that contain attributes specific to Tivoli Monitoring, and create or update the triggers that process IBM Tivoli Monitoring events. The SQL files also forward events to the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Situation Update Forwarder when using bidirectional communication.
- IBM Tivoli Monitoring Situation Update Forwarder executable.
- The program that forwards the updates from OMNIbus back to IBM Tivoli Monitoring.
If you choose to send EIF events from agents to Netcool/OMNIbus, you must also install the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Event Synchronization component because it contains the rules file for the Netcool/OMNIbus Probe for EIF, and the SQL files to update the Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer database.
If you are sending only SNMP events from agents to Netcool/OMNIbus, you do not need to install the synchronization component. The Tivoli Monitoring rules file for the Netcool/OMNIbus Probe for SNMP, and the SQL files to update the Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer database, are packaged separately.
If IBM Tivoli Monitoring situations have custom slots, you must update OMNIbus to add those custom slots. For more information about making this change, see Configure the Netcool/OMNIbus EIF probe.
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