Dell OpenManage Network Manager, Client Manual

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Event Processing Rules | Key Portlets
Description —An optional text description of the rule
Alarm Only —This is visible only in post-processing rules. Check this to enable the rule only if an
alarm is generated, not suppressed.
Enabled —Check this to enable the rule.
Filtering / Settings
For all rule types, select the
Event Definition
. Click
Add
to open a screen where you can select
events to include in the event you are creating. This incudes a filter at the top that you can use to
search for specific events. For example:
Event Name Contains ________.
You can then click
Add
Selection to include selected items in this filter, or Add All to include all displayed events. After you
finish event selection, click
Done
at the bottom of this selection screen.
Click Add Filter to further filter the selected events. See Filter Expanded Portlet Displays on page
85 for more about this feature. After you
Add Filter
the button changes to
Clear Filter
so you can
remove any filter from the event rule.
Tip
Dell OpenManage Network Manager supports multiple IP addresses per resource. During event
processing, filters that include IP address criteria may behave incorrectly when Dell OpenManage
Network Manager evaluates the filter. Best practice is using resource name(s) instead of IP addresses.
The following are processing rule types, and a description of their properties.