Event enrichment tasks
Network Manager adds a default set of topology information to events. Network administrators can configure event enrichment to enrich events with extra topology data.
Event Gateway configuration
Examples
of event enrichment include the following
- Enriching an event with main node location: administrators can configure event enrichment so that the location of the main node associated with an event is added to a field in the event.
- Enriching an event with interface name: administrators can configure event enrichment so that for all interface events, the name of the interface on which the event occurred is added to a field in the event.
Other examples of useful information that can be used to enrich events include the following:
- System contact
- Interface description
- Interface alias
To configure event enrichment, network administrators must first create new fields to hold the extra topology data in the Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer. The next step is to configure the Event Gateway config database to pass the relevant topology data to the ObjectServer.
Event Gateway plug-in configuration
Event
Gateway plug-ins are modular processes that receive enriched events
from the Event Gateway and perform further event enrichment or take
other action on these events. One of the Event Gateway plug-ins is
the RCA plug-in. Event Gateway plug-in configuration tasks include
the following:
- Enabling and disabling plugins
- Modifying event map subscriptions This changes the type of events that each plug-in acts on.
- Setting plug-in configuration parameters You can set optional configuration parameters for the Event Gateway plug-ins.