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EVM(5)
NAME
  EVM - Event Management

DESCRIPTION
  The purpose of the EVM event management system is to provide a means for
  any system component or application to indicate that something has happened
  that may be of interest to some other entity. The indication is known as an
  event, and the component posting the event is known as an event generator
  or event poster.  The entity interested in the indication is known as an
  event subscriber.  Posters and subscribers are also known as EVM clients.

  Event Manager (EVM) is a Tru64 UNIX software component that provides the
  following features:

    ·  A way for kernel-level and user-level processes and components to post
       events

    ·  A way for processes to subscribe for notification when selected events
       occur

    ·  A viewer, allowing users to review events

    ·  A supporting API library

    ·  Supporting command-line utilities

  Events are handled through an event channel, which is a generic name
  applied to the overall processing of an event within the EVM system.	For
  an event poster, an event channel is a sink.	For an event subscriber, an
  event channel is a source.

  The event poster (posting client) does not know or care who might be
  interested in the event; it simply uses an available event channel to post
  the event.  It is the responsibility of the event channel to decide how to
  make the event available, and to whom.  The event subscriber (subscribing
  client) is responsible for identifying an interest in events to the event
  channel.  An event client may be a user-level process, a kernel subsystem,
  or (through some utility program) a user.

  Events are particularly useful to applications which need to:

    ·  Keep the system administrator informed of their own state, or of the
       state of the components they control or monitor

    ·  Make their state, or the state of the components they control or
       monitor, available to other monitoring components

SEE ALSO
  Commands: evmchmgr(8), evmd(8), evmget(1), evminfo(1), evmlogger(8),
       evmpost(1), evmreload(8), evmshow(1), evmsort(1), evmstart(8),
       evmstop(8), evmwatch(1)

  Routines: EvmConnControl(3), EvmConnCreate(3), EvmConnSubscribe(3),
       EvmConnWait(3), EvmEventCreate(3), EvmEventDump(3), EvmEventFormat(3),
       EvmEventPost(3), EvmEventRead(3), EvmEventValidate(3),
       EvmFilterCreate(3), EvmItemSet(3), EvmSrvStart(3),
       EvmStatusTextGet(3), EvmVarSet(3)

  Files: evm.auth(4), evmchannel.conf(4), evmdaemon.conf(4),
       evmfilterfile(4), evmlogger.conf(4), evmtemplate(4)

  Event Callback: EvmCallback(5)

  Event Connection: EvmConnection(5)

  EVM Events: EvmEvent(5)

  Event Filter: EvmFilter(5)

  Common Desktop Environment: Programmer's Guide
  System Administration
  Programmer's Guide

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