Managing IBM Serviceable Event Provider

You can configure and manage Serviceable Event Provider. This includes modifying the configuration and specifying how Serviceable Event Provider monitors and collects problem information, and sends SNMP traps to registered listeners.

Management information base
The IBM Serviceable Event Provider generates a Management information base (.mib) file, which can be used by the SNMP management applications when they listen to the traps.
Updating the Configuration file
You can specify the IBM Serviceable Event Provider to continuously report a problem according to the configuration file settings.
Checking status
You can check whether IBM Serviceable Event Provider is monitoring your system's syslog.
Displaying the activity log
Display the activity log to see all IBM Serviceable Event Provider activity for a designated time period.
Collecting inventory
IBM Serviceable Event Provider collects the hardware and software inventory data. To collect the hardware and software inventory, use the following commands.
Viewing the error data
IBM Serviceable Event Provider collects additional information about the errors and automatically captures set of diagnostic information when errors occur. To view error data use the following commands.
Deactivating IBM Serviceable Event Provider
IBM Serviceable Event Provider is activated by using the sepcli start command. However, there might be times when you want to deactivate Serviceable Event Provider until you choose to restart it.
Uninstalling IBM Serviceable Event Provider
Before you uninstall IBM Serviceable Event Provider, determine whether you want to save the configuration information to use for another system or again on this system.

Parent topic: IBM Serviceable Event Provider for IBM PowerKVM Systems