Events

You can use istool commands to work with events, event types, and the applications that process them.

An event is an occurrence of significance to a task or a system. Events can include completion or failure of an operation, a user action, or the change in state of a process. Suite tools can create different types of events in InfoSphere® Information Server and register these event types so users can subscribe to the events in the Subscription Manager.

Event types have names, properties, and associated notification types: either notifying a suite user by email or notifying an application that processes the events, or both. You can specify the type of notification for the subscription by using the Subscription Manager.