Monitoring Terminology

• the terminology related to monitoring has been developed by several persons and has changed over time
  
• as a result, different terms have been used for the same concepts, and this is reflected in existing documentation
  
• the following terms are synonymous:

source program (SP)
target program (TP)

both of these are event sources (ESs), but event sources include other things

• the following terms are synonymous in the context of MT Icon:

monitoring program (MP)
event monitor (EM)

they have more functionality than report processors (RPs)