The Serious Event Dispatcher dispatches WebSphere log events (such as application servers starting and stopping) to a specified remote server.
Download Description
The Serious Event Dispatcher, dispatches WebSphere log events to a known entity. It communicates using sockets. All events are sent via sockets to a local or remote server which is listening for these events.
The dispatcher is a "client" of the Admin Server. It polls the adminserver for any new events and if there are any new events the event is converted into a string and sent to a socket listener.
Serious Events Background
WebSphere Advanced logs "Serious Events" in the Systems Management Repository. There are five serious events that are logged in the
repository, namely,
AUDIT
ERROR
FATAL
TERMINATE
WARNING
Serious Event Format
Serious Event ID:An increasing integer value. (Maps to the primary key of the table).
EJS Server that Generated the message: example { BSI_ApplicationServer }
Host on which the message was generated: example {ws-camel.rchland.ibm.com}
Type of message: example:{AUDIT|ERROR|FATAL|TERMINATE|WARNING}
Source of the message: example:{com.ibm.websphere.xmlconfig.EJBConfig}
Time stamp: example:958072163148
Thread ID: example: {d02af98d}
The message: example:{Application Server Starting}