About events
Use events to help you identify faulty network devices and troubleshoot network problems.
Events are stored in the Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer and are presented in the Event Viewer. From the Event Viewer, you can take actions on events to find out more information about the event.
Restriction: Regardless of where you are
authenticated, your username must exist in the Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer
and have the necessary permissions in order to take actions on events.
Sources of events
When Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus receives events and alarms from network devices, it generates and stores alerts. The ObjectServer receives events from Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus probes, and potentially from many other network event sources.
Deduplication
Alerts are deduplicated. This means that if an event occurs multiple times, it only occupies a single alert row in the Event Viewer, with a count value indicating how many times the event occurred.