Common Event Infrastructure Server

Configure the Common Event Infrastructure Server using the administrative console.

Use this panel to enable the Common Event Infrastructure server and to configure the Common Event Infrastructure Bus Member.

To view this administrative console page, click either:

By default, new servers and clusters in deployment manager and custom (managed node) profiles and servers in a stand-alone profile do not have CEI support configured.

Important: Although you can modify the data sources used for the CEI configuration in deployment manager or custom profiles, you cannot modify (or unconfigure) existing CEI support. In stand-alone server profiles, you cannot modify the configured data sources, either.

Required security role for this task: When security and role-based authorization are enabled, you must be logged in as an administrator or a configurator to perform this task. You must also have the proper authority to make any changes to any of the databases.


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Enable the event infrastructure server

Specifies whether to enable the CEI service on your server.

By default, this option is cleared.

This field accepts the following values:
  • Selected. The application server attempts to start the CEI service automatically during server startup.
  • Cleared. The application server does not try to start the extended messaging infrastructure.

    If you intend to monitor event points within applications on this server and you clear this box, the system administrator must manually start the CEI or select Enable the event infrastructure server and restart the server.

Common Event Infrastructure Bus Member Location

Specifies the location / destination of the Common Event Infrastructure Bus. The destinations can be the local deployment target or on a remote target. Use the Local and Remote buttons in this panel to indicate the appropriate location.

Bus members are always hosted locally for stand-alone server profiles.

Local

Select this button if the Bus Member will be configured on this server or cluster.

Remote

Select this button if the Bus Member will be configured on another server or cluster (not the server or cluster you are currently configuring).

If you select Remote, use the associated drop-down list to specify the remote location you want to use. The drop-down list shows all deployment targets. Alternatively, you can click New to specify a new remote location.

Common Event Infrastructure Bus Member

Specifies the database you will use for the messaging infrastructure by the CEI service on your server. You will initially see the default properties for the CEI messaging infrastructure database fields, but you can make changes to the properties by editing the corresponding fields in the table. You can also make changes to these and other database properties by clicking the Edit... button, which will open a separate database configuration panel. When you are finished making changes on that panel, click OK and you will see the updated properties in the CEI messaging infrastructure database fields.

Note: If the CEI was configured as part of a stand-alone server profile, then bus members are always hosted locally and you cannot edit these fields.
Table 1. CEI messaging infrastructure database buttons
Button Function
Edit Opens a new panel which you can use to choose specific values for the data source provider, scope, data source properties, component specific properties, and whether to create tables in the CEI messaging infrastructure database.
Test Connection Verifies that the database specifications you entered are valid for connecting to the CEI messaging infrastructure database.
Table 2. CEI messaging infrastructure database fields
Property Value
Database Name Name of the database you are using for CEI messaging infrastructure.
Schema Name of the schema you will use with the CEI messaging infrastructure database.
Create Tables
  • Checked - The tables are created automatically in the CEI messaging infrastructure database during the CEI server configuration. You need to ensure that the database can be accessed and that the database user has all the rights needed to create the database tables once you begin the CEI server configuration.
  • Not checked - will not create the database tables; you must manually create the tables if they have not already been created on the database.
Note: You will not be able to create the tables once the CEI server is configured. After you have initially configured the server, the tables will have already been created and this choice will be disabled.
User name User ID required by the database.
Password Password for the user ID required by the database.
Server Fully qualified IP address or name and, optionally, the port used by the database
Provider The database vendor or file store. You must select a database vendor from the menu if the CEI has not been configured. Once you configure the CEI, you cannot edit the provider field.
Note: The file store option is only available when installing a stand-alone server.