What is the Event Registry?

The Event Registry is the central repository for:

• The definition of all of the fault and error event payloads.
• The definition of all of the localized diagnosis messages which are delivered into the ON consolidation and emitted by the Solaris Fault Manager.
• The article content which is delivered directly to customers via the Predictive Self-Healing Knowledge Article Website (www.sun.com/msg).

Move your mouse over the different boxes below to learn more about how the Event Registry works

This initial release of the Event Registry to OpenSolaris includes the following components:

• XML source files for all of the current fault and error events, localized syslog messages and knowledge article content.
• A web frontend for browsing both Event and Knowledge Article source files
• A set of command line tools for querying the event and syslog message repositories.

Getting Started

STEP 1: Download and install the Event Registry tarball (last updated 10/09/2009)

The Event Registry tarball is available at the [[Sun Download Center>>http://dlc.sun.com/osol/event_registry/downloads/current/evreg-bins-20091009.tar.bz2]]
The Event Registry can be installed anywhere on the system.  Once decompressed, it will consume about 10 MB of disk space.

   # mkdir -p <INSTALL_DIR>
   # cd <INSTALL_DIR>
   # bzip2 -d -c <EVREG> | tar xvf -

where <EVREG> is the pathname of the  downloaded Event Registry tarball

STEP 2: Start up the Event Registry web frontend

    % cd <INSTALL_DIR>/tools/bin
    % ./erapache <port>

where <port> is the number of an unused, unprivileged TCP port.

STEP 3: Access the Event Registry web frontend

Point your web browser at the following URL:

http://installhost:port

where **installhost** is the hostname or IP address of the machine
where you installed the Event Registry and **port** is the port
number you passed to the **erapache** tool in Step 2.

The web frontend to the Event Registry includes documentation on the
included CLI tools as well as overview documents which describe the
structure of the Event Registry.

STEP 4: Join us at fm-discuss

Finally, bring your questions, comments and suggestions to the
[[fm-discuss>>http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=49]] discussion group