Developing event sources for the Enterprise Console Web Services Adapter

Before you begin

This topic provides the steps for programming event sources that can send events to the Enterprise Console Web Services Adapter.

Why and when to perform this task

You should develop an event source for the Enterprise Web Services Adapter if the adapters already shipped with the Enterprise Console, version 3.9, product are not suited to the following characteristics of your environment:

  1. There is no Enterprise Console adapter that can adapt the event format you need to monitor;
  2. The event source is not written in either C or Java programming languages and therefore, cannot use the Enterprise Console Event Integration Facility toolkit to send events directly to an Enterprise Console event server ;
  3. You need you event source to interoperate with both Enterprise Console and the Common Event Infrastructure and need to use a common interface for sending events to either event server.

Steps for this task

  1. Install the Enterprise Console Feature Option 1 SDK on your machine.
  2. Use your Web Services toolkit of choice to produce an application that can send SOAP over HTTP requests compliant with the Web Services interface definition for the Enterprise Console Web Services Adapter.
  3. You can choose between the WS-Notification 1.0 or WS-Notification 1.3 format for the messages sent from your event source. WS-Notification 1.0 is already finalized whereas WS-Notification 1.3 was in the final review stages when the Enterprise Console Feature Option 1 SDK shipped.
  4. If the events produced by your event source do not directly map to one of the event classes shipped with the Enterprise Console product, you need to supply the Enterprise Console administrator with an Enterprise Console BAROC file representing the event classes that will be used in the Enterprise Console Web Services adapter.


Related topics
Installing the Enterprise Console Feature Option 1 SDK
Web Services interface definition
Event source samples
Testing your event source without an Enterprise Console server
Event format conversion


References
Common Base Event specification
WS-Notification 1.0 specification
WS-Notification 1.3 specification.