Overview

Within Universal Agent, an event is the occurrence of some action or condition at a particular location in the computer network and at a particular time at that location.

There are a number of different types of events, such as:

• Start of a Universal Agent component.
• User authentication failure.
• Completion of a file transfer.

The Universal Event Subsystem (UES), a subsystem of Universal Enterprise Controller (UEC), provides the means by which Universal Agent components generate data (event messages) about those events and, in a single repository, have those events recorded. This collection of recorded events (event records) is maintained in the UES database (uec.evm.db) and archived to external storage. It represents the work and activity of all distributed workload managed by Universal Agent components.

An event definition defines the fields in an event record for each event type.

Universal Agent consists of a set of components distributed across a computer network. The components work together to perform some unit of work. The components that are working together have an association that must be maintained in the event data. For that reason, UES event records not only include information about the event, but also information about associations between the components reporting the events.

The Universal Enterprise Controller (UEC) maintains a central UES database (uec.evm.db) for all event data within its domain of responsibility. The UES database contains all UES event records collected by UEC from Universal Broker components that are defined to it. The UES database provides medium-term persistent storage for the UES events. Periodically, the UES database events must be exported to long-term storage in order to maintain a historical record of events. If the export is not performed periodically, the UES database will continue to grow and eventually exhaust all disk space available to it.

Detailed Information

The following pages provide detailed information for UES Event Definitions:

• Universal Agent Architecture
• Event Data Export Formats
• Event Records Structure
• Event Header
• Event Definition Details
• Universal Agent Error Codes