The TME 10 Enterprise Console (T/EC) is one of Tivoli's availability management applications. As a management tool, it assists in maintaining high availability of the myriad of networks, system applications, and databases found within the scope of an enterprise, and provides a centralized point of control for all critical messages stemming from these resources.
The computing resources in the distributed environment generated messages in a variety of formats. The function that captures these messages is called an event adapter. Each event adapter installed on or near the monitored computing resources is familiar with the structure of that raw data and transforms the information it receives by parsing and restructuring it before sending it to the T/EC event server in a T/EC acceptable format, a special structured format named BAROC (Basic Representation of Object in C). BAROC is a simple event class structure that allows important elements of a message to be separated into a number of pieces of information called slots. Each event is defined as a member of a class.
A number of different types of T/EC event adapters may exist on any TCP/IP connected system, not only on TME managed nodes. Besides generating the events and sending them to the T/EC event server, the adapters also filter out extraneous information so only significant events are forwarded to the T/EC event server. This helps reduce the demand on the network and the amount of processing done by the T/EC event server when the computing resources are sending out large numbers of messages.