Dell PowerStore 3200T Using the Common Event Enabler 8.x on Linux Platforms - Page 5

1 Introduction Topics: • About CEE • System requirements • Support for third-party applications About CEE The Dell Common Event Enabler (CEE) framework is used to provide a working environment for the Common Event Publishing Agent (CEPA) facility, which includes sub-facilities for auditing, content/quota management (CQM), Common Asynchronous Publishing Service (VCAPS), and indexing. CEPA is a mechanism whereby applications can register to receive event notification and context from sources such as Dell Unity or PowerStore systems. The event publishing agent delivers to the application both event notification and associated context in one message. Context may consist of file metadata or directory metadata needed to decide business policy. The CEPA sub-facilities include: ● Auditing-A mechanism for delivering post-events to registered consumer applications in a synchronous manner. Events are delivered individually in real-time. ● Backup-A mechanism for delivering post-events in bulk mode to backup applications. A backup-specific delivery cadence is based on either a time period or a number of events. ● CQM-A mechanism for delivering pre-events to registered consumer applications in a synchronous manner. Events are delivered individually in real-time, allowing the consumer application to exercise business policy on the event. ● Index-A mechanism for delivering events to Splunk Enterprise or the Splunk Cloud in asynchronous mode. The delivery cadence is based on either a time period or a number of events. ● MessageExchange-A mechanism for delivering post-events in asynchronous mode, when needed, without consumer use of the CEPA API. Events are published from CEPA to the RabbitMQ CEE_Events exchange. A consumer application creates a queue for itself in the exchange from which it can retrieve events. NOTE: RabbitMQ is supported only for Dell Unity and VNX systems running CEE version 8.8.2.1 and earlier. ● VCAPS-A mechanism for delivering post-events in asynchronous mode. The delivery cadence is based on either a time period or a number of events. NOTE: If both CQM events and Auditing events are present, CEPA delivers events to the CQM application first, and then delivers events to the Auditing application. This document is intended for use by customers who want to use CEE with consumer applications (such as for quotas or content type) to manage content stored on file systems. System requirements System requirements describes the Dell software, hardware, network, and storage configurations. Table 1. System requirements Software One of the following: ● SUSE Enterprise Linux version 12 for 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems. ● Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7.x and higher for 64-bit operating systems. Three kits are available: ● emc_cee_SLES-yyy.i386.rpm for installation on 32-bit SUSE platforms ● emc_cee_SLES-yyy.x86_64.rpm for installation on 64-bit SUSE platforms Introduction 5