Overview
Event Isolation and Correlation, or EIC, is a solution that is included with IBM Netcool/Impact as of release 6.1, and is intended to provide built-in functionality allowing the association of dissimilar alarms to each other (i.e. to correlate them together) in a “root cause” and “symptom” relationship for the Netcool OMNIbus and Impact products.
Components
The EIC solution is composed of:
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Netcool Impact (6.1+)
- Data Sources
- Operator Views
- Impact policies
- Netcool OMNIbus
- A DB2 database containing the required Service Component Registry (SRC) tables, obtained through the implementation of the TBSM schema.
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Optional components
- TBSM
- TADDM
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