About probes
Probes and Telco Service Managers (TSMs) connect to an event source, detect and acquire event data, and forward the data to the ObjectServer as alerts. TSMs operate in the same manner as probes but have some additional functions. Probes and TSMs use the logic specified in a rules file to manipulate the event elements before converting them into fields of an alert in the ObjectServer alerts.status table.
The following figure shows how probes fit into the Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus architecture.
Figure 1. Event
processing in Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus
The flow of event data is as follows:
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- Event data is generated by the probe target.
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- The probe tokenizes the event data, adds extra information to the event, and assigns values to the fields in the ObjectServer alerts.status table. The probe then forwards the processed data to the ObjectServer as an alert.
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- The ObjectServer stores and manages alerts, which can be displayed in the event list, and optionally forwarded to one or more gateways.