VMware Smart Assurance NOTIF architecture
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NOTIF architectureThere are two main components of
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NOTIF. The first is the real-time component which
processes SNMP traps or other raw event types according to configuration
settings. This configuration processing is performed on raw events by the Event
Configuration Information (EventConfigInfo or ECI) objects. ECI objects
determine whether a particular event will be processed, that is, whether a
notification for an event will be created. ECI processing is discussed in
Chapter 2, “Event Configuration
Information Processing.”The second
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NOTIF component is notification processing, which is
configured by the Notification Configuration Information (NCI) objects. NCI
objects determine how notifications are processed. NCI processing is discussed
in
Chapter 3, “Notification
Configuration Information Processing.”It is important to note the
separation of raw event processing (through ECI objects) versus notification
processing (through NCI objects) since this allows
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NOTIF to operate in various architectures. The
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NOTIF Editor allows the user to manipulate the
configuration settings for both ECI and NCI objects.
In an
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implementation, VMware Smart Assurance
NOTIF can reside on a SAM server or an Adapter Platform
Open Interface (OI) server. Smarts NOTIF ECI/NCI structure in an
Smarts environment shows how ECI and NCI objects are used in an VMware Smart Assurance
NOTIF solution where low-level raw events are filtered and
processed, and notifications are grouped within the Adapter Platform
. An additional VMware Smart Assurance
NOTIF process is run within the SAM server to combine and
group notifications from the adapter servers and other (analysis) servers. VMware Smart Assurance
NOTIF ECI/NCI structure in an
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environment