Refer to the section titled “Acronyms Used in this Document” for descriptions of the acronyms that this document uses.

A response to an event. (Most actions are performed automatically when an event occurs.)

A set of functions that tasks can use to communicate with the core Embedded Support Partner software (System Event Manager, System Group Manager, etc.).

A standalone tool that monitors system availability.

A standalone tool that monitors system hardware and software configurations.

See ICRASH.

A rules-based management subsystem in the System Event Manager that responds to events with actions. The Decision Support Module is part of the eventmond daemon.

The Configurable Web Server that Embedded Support Partner uses to receive user input from a Web browser, to interact with operating system-based software, and to return results to the user. (inetd invokes esphttpd whenever connections are needed.)

A standalone tool that provides notification capabilities for Embedded Support Partner.

An identifiable condition on a system that needs to be logged and traced. Events are also referred to as system events.

An OS-based daemon that monitors for system events and sends them to the Embedded Support Partner framework.

A standalone suite of diagnostic tests that verify system hardware while IRIX is running on a system. These diagnostics are included on the Internal Support Tools 2.0 CD, which is available only to SGI support personnel.

A standalone application that validates a system by running heavy loads on the system. The Field Stress Tool (FST) is included on the Internal Support Tools 2.0 CD, which is available only to SGI support personnel.

See Throttling.

The system within a system group that runs the System Group Manager software.

A standalone system crash analysis tool that is included in the operating system.

See QPage.

An inference engine for performance metrics: It evaluates a set of performance rules at specified time intervals. You can use a separate utility to customize and extend the rules and their attributes.

A standalone application that espnotify uses to perform alphanumeric paging.

The capability to interact with Embedded Support Partner from a remote site.

An application that provides the main functionality for generating reports.

Dynamic shared objects that provide the capability to configure and generate various reports (for example, configuration reports) from the user interface. (The report generator plugins work with the report generator core to generate various reports.)

See Task.

See Event

The portion of the System Event Manager that validates and throttles events and then logs the events into the System Support Database. The System Event Handler is part of the eventmond daemon.

The nerve center of Embedded Support Partner. The System Event Manager is part of the eventmond daemon and contains the System Event Handler and the Decision Support Module.

The software module that enables you to uniformly manage multiple systems at a site.

The central repository for all system support data.

A standalone diagnostic tool that loads and runs a suite of test programs and generates a set of files that report the results of this activity. The System Verification Program (SVP) is included on the Internal Support Tools 2.0 CD, which is available only to SGI support personnel.

Any facility (for example, an application or program) that performs some function. Tasks are external to the System Event Manager (SEM). Tasks can include diagnostics, monitors, and specific applications (all support tools are tasks).

The mechanism that specifies the conditions at which new records are logged in the database per event. Throttling is used to minimize disk space usage. Throttling is also called filtering.