TIAS is a client/server application that lets you define events, series of events, and combinations of events as problems. It lets you decide which problems are significant enough to examine. It lets you subscribe to certain problems, ensuring that you can view details of problem instances.
Once a TIAS client subscribes to a view, the TIAS server sends the record of each problem instance defined for that view to the client. The problem instance appears in a problem overview on the client's monitor.
Selecting a problem instance from the view lets you examine log information for each problem. The log information shows the raw events that constitute a problem instance.
The TIAS client sends definition information to the TIAS server. Once a client sends a definition to the TIAS server, every client has access to that definition. Once the event filter, problem, or view definition reaches the server, it becomes accessible in the TIAS menu system of each TIAS client.
When an event occurs on a network, an event message is sent to the TIAS server. As the TIAS server receives events, event filters permit significant event messages to pass to a correlation engine in the server.
The correlation engine compares incoming events to defined problems. If an event or set of events meets the definition of a problem, the correlation engine sends an event message, tagged as a problem, to the problem server, part of the TIAS server.
The problem server holds a list of view definitions. It uses them to distribute problem instance reports to TIAS clients. On the client, the TIAS Overview window shows the views the client is subscribed to. The window lets you select problem instances for detailed examination. Views are defined to include certain problem definitions. The problem server sorts incoming problem instances to appropriate views. It sends records of problem instances to the TIAS clients that have subscribed to the those views.