HP Operations Manager for Windows

Server Message Stream Interface (MSI)


The server-based Message Stream Interface (MSI) enables programs external to the HPOM for Windows Message Action Server to pre-process incoming messages before they are stored in the HPOM for Windows database. These external programs are called MSI clients. MSI clients can change message attributes or suppress entire messages. They can also generate and add new messages to the message pipeline.

You can configure MSI clients in a server policy. To receive messages, an MSI client needs to be registered at the running MSI server.

You perform the general MSI configuration in XplConfig. The configuration parameters consist of name-value pairs. You can see the names but not the values. Each name serves a particular function. Each value configures this function.

The server-based MSI feature supports the following: