EMS - centralized monitoring and reporting

[moonchild]

What is the best way to send all EMS events to a centralized station for triage, monitoring and reporting?

Or does an open source or product with such capabilities exist?

[Wouter Jagers]

I'm afraid there won't be an opensource tool for that..

HP has for example ISEE and OpenView Operations (OVO), which can both work with EMS events.

Are your EMS events logged in the syslog ? In that case you could create a 'central' log on one machine where these errors can be logged. Your own scripts could then analyze them. (see the manpage of syslogd)

Cheers

[Andrew Merritt_2]

You can use HP-SIM or SMH (System Management Homepage) in conjunction with SysFaultMgmt to do this. The EMS HW monitors are used underneath this (at least for the hardware for which SFM does not yet have native support).

See http://www.docs.hp.com/en/diag.html#System%20Fault%20Management%20%28SFM%29 for more information. In SFM/WBEM terms, it is Indications that you are interested.

It might be possible to do something just with the EMS HW monitors, for example by forwarding the emails that by default are sent to 'root' on the local machine, but for the longer term it would be better to look into SFM.

Andrew

[Tim Nelson]

1) send EMS events via EMAIL

2) send EMS snmp traps to some type of snmp manager, SIM, OV, etc..