various event update and synchronization scenarios. The various components used in this integration are: OMEGAMON Tivoli Event Adapter: This is supplied as part of the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server, and EIF is used as the communication method used to send the IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console events. Tivoli Enterprise Console Event Synchronization: This component is installed on each IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console server that should receive events from IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1. The underlying component is called the Situation Update Forwarder (SUF), and SOAP is used as the communication method to send updates to Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server. Event and rule definitions: ­ omegamon.rls: Contains event-specific synchronization rules. ­ omegamon.baroc: Contains the new IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 base event definitions. ­ Sentry.baroc: Contains an updated version of Sentry2_0_Base to support Tivoli Distributed Monitoring V3.x environments. ­ k<TAG>.baroc: Each IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 monitoring component provides separate files containing specific monitoring components. The <TAG> is 3z, a4, ex, ib, nt, oq, or, oy, ud, ul, ux. For example, the Windows events will be defined in knt.baroc.