Operations Sentinel uses the concept of hardware and software objects. A hardware object is any piece of hardware you can configure using Operations Sentinel Console, such as a system or console. A software object is an application running on a system, a process, and so on.

Figure 11. Event Report Sources, Types, and Receivers

Attributes of Objects

Objects have attributes, also called properties. An attribute is a piece of information about the object that has a value. For example, the size of a disk drive is an attribute of a disk drive object; the number of active batch runs is an attribute of a systemobject; the status of a disk drive, whether it is up or down, is another attribute of a disk drive object.

One object can have multiple attributes. The names of the attributes are fixed, but their values change over time.

Attributes and Object Classes

To logically organize objects, Operations Sentinel separates them into object classes. All the objects in a class have the same attributes. An attribute that applies to one object may not apply to another. For example, the attribute “Batch Open” applies to an OS 2200 system.