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associated with an Alarm. This type of suppression is useful for an Alarm
that has been excluded for a long time. Such an Alarm could see the object
going up and down a large number of times - especially for an object that has
been excluded for months. The suppression is done by deleting the oldest
Events first, although the first Event (the Event that results in the creation of
the Alarm object) is never deleted.
• Maximum Event Repeat Count - this value is also used to implement a form
of event suppression or filtering to prevent the Alarms database from growing
unbounded. Some Alarms result in an Event being phoned home every 5
minutes or so indicating that the Alarm is still down. This could result in a
large number of Events associated with the Alarm, although there is little
additional information contained in these repeat Events. The value in this
field limits the number of repeat Events for an Alarm.