Single Point Autoaction Message System (SP-AMS) is the application that supports the automation of MCP, UNIX, and Linux systems. It uses a database of message patterns and actions for these patterns. SP-AMS invokes the actions that are defined for a pattern, when it receives a message from a managed system matching that pattern.
UNIX and Linux configured connections can communicate with only one Operations Sentinel server at a time. However, a system can be monitored through multiple connections to one or more Operations Sentinel servers. MCP systems can communicate with one or more servers at a time, but only one of these servers (the primary server) can send commands to the MCP system. Consequently, both MCP, UNIX and Linux systems are controlled by only one SP-AMS database at a time. Since there is only one active SP-AMS database on an Operations Sentinel server, activating or deactivating an SP-AMS database affects automation of all UNIX and Linux and MCP systems managed from that server.
In addition to automating console operations, SP-AMS can
Raise, acknowledge, and clear alerts.
Send commands to managed systems.
Change attribute values of managed objects.
Provide cross-system automation.
See the Operations Sentinel Autoaction Message System Administration Guide for more information about SP-AMS.