6.1  About the Web Interface

The web interface provides browser-based access to SEA. You can use the web interface to connect to the Director on your local system or on remote systems and analyze and translate their binary event log files.

6.1.1  About Translation

Event information in the system event log is stored in binary format. Translation is the process of converting this binary data into readable text. The web interface does not automatically perform translation; each event that you want to translate must be manually selected.

6.1.2  About Analysis

Information from a binary event log file can be used to detect hardware failures on the system. The process of reading binary event log files, interpreting events, and creating problem reports with proposed resolutions is called analysis.

As the system writes events to the binary event log file, SEA processes each event according to the registered rule sets. The rule sets contain the information necessary to interpret events. Then, when an event matches the conditions described in the rule sets, SEA creates a problem report containing information about the event and proposed resolutions.

The web interface can perform both automatic and manual analysis.

6.1.2.1  Automatic Analysis

When the Director is started, SEA initiates automatic analysis. In automatic mode, SEA continuously monitors the binary system event log and processes events as they arrive. Problem reports are generated as necessary.

For more information about automatic analysis operations and output, see Chapter 7.

6.1.2.2  Manual Analysis

Manual analysis also compares the events from log files to the registered rule sets and generates problem reports. However, unlike automatic analysis, you must manually select each binary event log file you want to process.

For more information about manual analysis operations and output, see Chapter 7.

6.1.3  Automatic Notifications

SEA can send the results of automatic analysis to email addresses or HP Services. See Chapter 10 for more information on automatic notifications.

6.1.4  Create New Binary Log File

You can filter the contents of existing binary event logs and create a new binary event log file containing a subset of the events from the originals. When you create a new binary log file, SEA checks the events in the original binary event log file (input file) against the filter statement. All the events that meet the criteria specified by the filter statement are added to the new binary event log file (output file). The new binary event log file can then be used for analysis, translation, or any other SEA process.

For more information on using the web interface to create a new binary event log file, see Section 6.6.