Chapter 4. Embedded Event Manager (EEM)

This chapter covers the following topics:

• EEM Architecture

• Software Release Support for EEM

• Writing an EEM Applet

• Using EEM and Tcl Scripts

Embedded Event Manager (EEM) enables you to run user-defined scripts (Tcl scripts) in Cisco IOS. EEM consists of three components:

• Event detectors: Event detectors are used as a trigger based on certain conditions. Some of these conditions include, monitoring for syslog events, online insertion and removal (IOR), command-line interface (CLI) input, timers, and so on.

• EEM server: The EEM server is the director of EEM. When configured events occur, the associated action is implemented.

• Policies: Policies or scripts are either applets or Tcl scripts configured ...

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