Chapter 1 Introduction

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Events and Event Management
How EVM Events are Handled

The Event Manager is a comprehensive event management system. It includes a full set of command-line utilities that enable you to filter, sort, and format events. An event is an indication that some changes have happened in the system that may be of interest to a class of users or different entities within a system. Following are the interested groups and entities:

A system administrator, application manager, or some other class of users
System monitoring software
The operating system
An application program

This chapter addresses only user-level event handling. Events can be captured on a local system.

This chapter addresses the following topics:

“Events and Event Management”
“How EVM Events are Handled”

Chapter 1 Introduction

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