Common Event Infrastructure Server

Use this page to configure the Common Event Infrastructure (CEI) event and messaging infrastructure databases, and select whether to enable the CEI service when the server is started.

You would use this panel to configure the three main components of the CEI:
To view this administrative console page, click either:

By default, new servers and clusters in deployment manager and custom (managed node) profiles do not have CEI support configured. You may already have configured this service if you specified CEI support as part of a stand-alone server profile.

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 if you are using a deployment manager or custom (managed node) profile. If you have configured the CEI as part of a stand-alone server profile, this check box is already selected.

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 Database

Specifies the database you will use to store events emitted by the CEI service on your server. You will initially see the default properties for the CEI event 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 event database fields.

Note: If this database was configured as part of a stand-alone server profile, then the database is always hosted locally and you cannot edit these fields.
Table 1. CEI event 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 event database.
Test Connection Verifies that the database specifications you entered are valid for connecting to the CEI event database.
Table 2. CEI event database fields
Property Value
Database Name Name of the database you are using for storing CEI-emitted events.
Schema Not supported for the CEI event database. The CEI server does not support dynamic database schemas for event databases on distributed platforms. In order to support several CEI server configurations, you need to configure a different event database for each additional CEI server. Alternatively, you can to set up different event database users for each CEI server configuration for databases that map user ids to schemas.
Create Tables
  • Checked – The tables are created automatically in the CEI event 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 – The tables will not be created. You will need to manually create the tables by using the SQL scripts that will be generated.
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. If the CEI has not been configured, you must select the database vendor. Once you configure the CEI, you cannot edit the provider field.

Common Event Infrastructure Bus

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 3. 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 4. 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.