HP (Hewlett-Packard) HP OpenView Vantagepoint – Operation Manual for UNIX User Manual

Using the Integration Capabilities of the VPO Motif-based GUI

If an application writes events into a logfile, the VPO logfile
encapsulator can interpret these events and incorporate them in the
VPO Message Browser.

A VPO logfile template specifies the events that are of interest to VPO,
for example:

❏ the file to be analyzed and the polling interval
❏ the defaults to be applied to the generated messages (severity,

message group, etc.)

❏ a set of options
❏ a set of conditions

A condition either specifies which events should generate messages to be
forwarded to the management server (message conditions) or which
events should be suppressed (suppress conditions).

Do not mistake the Monitoring Options part of the Add/Modify
Logfile

 window, for the threshold monitoring facility of VPO which is

The template defaults are applied in the following cases:

❏ When defining a new condition for a given template.
❏ When a message is generated that does not match either a message

condition or a suppress condition, this is referred to as an
unmatched message. When defining the template, the options let
you choose whether unmatched messages are ignored or forwarded to
the VPO management server.

You can always change the defaults for the entire template or for
individual conditions as required.

To define a logfile template, click on the [Add Logfile] button in the
Message Source Templates

 window. The Add Logfile window shown

in Figure 3-3 enables you to specify the logfile to be encapsulated, the
monitoring options for the logfile, and the defaults for the generated
message.