Common characteristics of Event Adapters

Event Adapters share the following characteristics:

• All regular expressions are managed by the Perl interpreter, and they must be in Perl 5 style.
• Several instances of the same adapter type can run at the same time. For example, two SNMP Adapters can be configured to listen on two different ports. Similarly, several LogFile Adapters can monitor several log files with completely different settings.
• Each instance of an adapter is related to a map file. The map file is a text file that manages the translation between a specific event coming from an external source and a cell event. It consists of a set of statements, conditions, and assignments.
• All BMC Event Adapters store their configurations in the same configuration file, mcxa.conf. You can specify a different configuration file, if required.
• The mcxa process for the BMC Event Adapters can run as a daemon on UNIX systems and as a service on Windows systems.