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The Common Base Event specification defines a new mechanism for managing events in business enterprise applications and how to communicate self-healing events in the Autonomic computing model.
A small event can change things far beyond the seeming initial circumstance. Nowhere is this more true than in today's complex world of e-business where multitudes of interconnected systems must work together to perform many of the simple housekeeping activities which are necessary to keep a computing system healthy. In this world, small things can have wide-reaching implications and few things are as small, yet pervasive, in a computing infrastructure than an event. The event, which encapsulates message data sent as the result of an occurrence, or situation, represents the very foundation on which these complex systems communicate. Basic aspects of enterprise management, such as performance monitoring, security and reliability, as well as fundamental portions of e-business communications, such as order tracking, are grounded in the viability and fidelity of these events, in that quality data lends to accurate, deterministic and proper management of the enterprise.
Clearly effort to ensure the accuracy, improve the detail and standardize the format of these fundamental enterprise building blocks is an imperative towards designing robust, manageable and deterministic systems. We therefore define here the "Common Base Event" as a new standard for events amongst management and business enterprise applications.
| Description | Date | Access method |
|---|---|---|
| Common Base Event specification | Current | HTTP Web page |
- Download the Emerging Technologies ToolKit from the IBM alphaWorks site. The toolkit also contains the Generic Log Adapter for Autonomic Computing, and the Common Base Event implementation. You can also participate in the discussion group on the ETTK.
- Read about IBM Research's activities in Autonomic Computing.
- Another tool to help build autonomic systems, Agent Building and Learning Environment, is also available from the IBM alphaWorks site.
