Event Action Plans

Use Event Action Plans to specify actions that are performed in response to events that are generated by a managed object. Managed objects include, but are not limited to, Level-0, Level-1, Level-2 managed systems, SNMP devices, BladeCenterâ„¢ management modules, platforms, and switches.

An event action plan is composed of two types of components:
  • One or more event filters, which specify event types and any related parameters
  • One or more event actions, which occur in response to filtered events
You can apply an event action plan to an individual managed object, several managed objects, or a group of managed objects.

By creating event action plans and applying them to specific managed objects, you can be notified by e-mail or pager, for example, when a specified threshold is reached or a specified event occurs. Or you can configure an event action plan to start a program on a managed object and change a managed-object variable when a specific event occurs. You can use any event, including process-monitor and resource-monitor events, to build an event action plan.

When you install IBM® Director, a single event action plan is already defined, in addition to any that you created using the Event Action Plan wizard. The Log All Events event action plan has the following characteristics:
  • It uses the event filter named All Events, a simple event filter that processes all events from all managed objects.
  • It performs the action Add to the Event Log, a standard event action that adds an entry to the IBM Director Server event log.
Icon Event
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Supported IBM Director objects All managed objects
Supported operating systems

All operating systems supported by IBM Director. For detailed operating-system support information, see the IBM Director information center at publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r2/topic/diricinfo/fqm0_main.html.

Availability Part of the standard IBM Director installation.
Required hardware or hardware limitations None
Required software None
Required protocols None
Required device drivers None
Mass Configuration support No
Scheduler support No
Files associated with this task None
Events associated with this task All events in an IBM Director environment are available for use in this task.

For detailed events information, see the IBM Director information center on the Web at publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r2/topic/diricinfo/fqm0_main.html.

Related tasks
Building an event action plan
Enabling and viewing an event action history
Exporting an event action plan
Importing an event action plan
Restricting an event action plan
Using the Event Action Plan wizard
Viewing event-action-plan associations
Related reference
Event Action Plan Builder window

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