User`s guide

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User’s Guide
Creating an Event Filter
Once you have established which filtering criteria you want to apply to your new filter, you
can proceed to create a new event filter:
1. Click Configuration Tasks → Events → Filters in the PAM tree. The filter configuration
page opens with the list of existing event message filters.
2. Click New to display the Create a New Event Filter page. The standard event message
filtering criteria table is displayed.
Figure 72. New Filter configuration page – standard event message filtering criteria table
3. Enter a relevant name in the Filter Name field and a brief description, if required, in the
Description field.
Note:
For further details about event filtering criteria and options, see Standard Event Filtering
Criteria, on page 5-41 and Advanced Event Filtering Criteria, on page 5-44.
4. Uncheck the S box for the event messages not to be included in the filter.
5. If the filter is to be used to send messages to the PAM Web interface, check the Ack box
if you want the event message to be manually acknowledged by a user; or uncheck the
Ack box to enter a display value in the Duration cell.
6. Double click the Severity cell to select the message severity level.
7. If required, click Advanced to access advanced filtering criteria. The advanced event
message filtering criteria chart is displayed.