Emitter activities

When your managed network includes an IBM Tivoli Alert Adapter or IBM Tivoli Alert Manager, this tab shows the emitter activities available for your products. Emitter activities are used to forward situation events to Tivoli management products and to third-party party management products.

For more information on the parameters for the emitter activity, click Help in the Emitter Settings window and refer to the documentation of the target management product. The SNMP Event activity is available to all users; many of the other activities are available only if your environment has policies that were created with one of the other alert manager products.

NetView® Event

IBM Tivoli Alert Adapter for TME 10 Netview.

SNMP Event

This activity is available with the Universal Agent. It enables you to send an SNMP trap with information about any situation event to an SNMP manager.

Connector

Use the Connector tool to add connecting lines between the activity icons to control the workflow of the policy.

You can have a single connector from an activity, and you can have multiple connectors from an activity so long as each connector links to a separate activity. Multiple connectors from an activity are processed using AND logic.

When joining activities with the Connector tool, you assign an end code to each connection. Emitter activities can generate the following end codes:

• Error means that the emitter activity failed to complete successfully. The reason might be that a referenced object does not exist or a command returned an error status from the operating system.
• Data emitted means that the data generated by the activity was emitted successfully to the application.