Event Archive workspace

Use the Event Archive workspace to view archived IBM® MQ (WebSphere® MQ) events that are reported to a queue manager over the selected time period for which historical records are available. The details that are associated with an event are recorded with the event in a readable XML format attribute. You can see this XML format attribute in this workspace without having to link elsewhere.

To store the data, historical data collection must be enabled for the Event Archive attribute group in the History Collection Configuration window. The Event Archive attribute group is eligible for use with Tivoli® Data Warehouse. If you enable historical data collection for this attribute group, use Tivoli Data Warehouse to store historical data if possible, because the amount of event data might be large.

In this workspace, you can search for some specific archived MQ events by right-clicking any row in the table and clicking MQ Event Search.

Remember:
  • All data pages in the Event Archive table cannot be sorted by the Event Date & Time attribute in descending order. You can sort only the current page of this table in descending order.
  • When you perform a search operation, MQ events are searched within the time span that is set for the query in this workspace. If you want to change this time span, do it before you start the search function.

Predefined views

The Event Archive workspace includes the following predefined views:

  • Event Archive The Event Archive view provides you with a list of MQ events that are reported to the selected queue manager.
  • Message Log The message log gives you an overview of changes in the status of your monitored system. It also provides information about the status of monitoring agents and other system events. For more information about this view, see Tivoli Enterprise Portal help.

For more information about the attributes listed in the table of this workspace, see Event Archive attributes.