When I first heard about Enterprise Event Logging I was quite excited.  I
imagined that all backup events could be logged as backup events to a
central server.  I then pictured that  Ops support  could use their web
browser to logon to this central server and then query all exception backup
events to get a list of all backups that had failed for that day in the
enterprise.

I.E   Web Client issues Q EVENT *  * Type=Client Exceptionsonly=yes in the
background

So I was a little dissappointed to learn that events are purely ADSM
messages only.  I realize that with these messages it may be possible to
determine similar information but it certainly a lot more complicated.  Any
comments or ideas on how to do something similar using the messages ?

Also while I am here where are events stored in the ADSM database. I would
like use an SQL query against the database to determine failed events. Once
again I had assumed there was a table called EVENTS or something like that
could be used. Does the QUERY EVENT command supplied by ADSM use the
activity log somehow to determine its output.?


Greg Downes
Tuning and Storage Administration
Centrelink
Canberra AUSTRALIA