Whenever you initiate an external application, a message with type OP is written to the system’s log and to the SP-EXTAPP log. In addition, separate log messages of type LA are written to the SP-EXTAPP log. These log messages provide the command string, each environment variable, and a code indicating the success or failure of the application initiation. However, the success or failure of the application itself is not recorded automatically since the application runs independently after it is initiated. If an external application needs to log additional information, it can do this by calling the spo_event command or functions of the Operations Sentinel Event Server API.

When you exit an external application, a message with type CL is written to the system’s log and to the SP-EXTAPP log.

All messages include a time stamp, identifier of the managed object (in the format: server.system . console) if any, the logon name of the Operations Sentinel Console user, the name of the Operations Sentinel workstation, and the process-id (pid) of the instance of Operations Sentinel Console.