Reporting Application Events

Novell^® Application Launcher^TM can report on the success or failure of the following application events: launching, distributing, filtering, uninstalling, caching, and terminating.

Application Launcher can write events to the Sybase ODBC-compatible database or to a text log file, send them as SNMP traps to a management console, or send them as XML data to a Web URL for processing. Because event reporting is established on a per-application basis, you can use one reporting method for one application and a different reporting method for another. Or, you can use all four methods for the same application.

The following sections provide information about setting up each type of event reporting and configuring Application objects to use one or more reporting methods:

• Setting Up Database Reporting
• Setting Up SNMP Trap Reporting
• Setting Up Log File Reporting
• Setting Up XML Reporting
• Configuring Applications to Use Reporting
• Generating Reports from a Database
• Understanding Log File Reports

The reporting described in these sections applies only to applications launched by Application Launcher (in other words, applications that have Application objects). Application Launcher can also report on applications that it does not launch. These applications are referred to as rogue processes. For more information about setting up reporting for rogue processes, see Controlling Rogue Processes.

For MSI applications, you can also turn on verbose logging so that the Windows Installer outputs information to a log file on the user's workstation. The following section provides information:

• Enabling Windows Installer Verbose Logging