Owner's Manual

Events, Rules and Actions 825
Event Definitions
This application lets you define how the system treats messages (events) coming into the system.
Administrators can define event behavior deciding whether it is suppressed, rejected or generates
an Alarm. The Event Definitions screen manages these responses for your system.
Figure 34-9. Event Definitions
This screen displays a filtered list of actions. As in a typical manager, the filter is at the top of the
screen. You can filter on the following behavior:
Default Behavior (Alarm, Reject, or Suppress),
Event Name, MIB Name, Message, Notification OID, Severity
and Valid ( True/False radio buttons)
criteria. In this screen, you can configure events that, when correlated as described in Event
Processing Rules on page 815, trigger actions.
CAUTION:
Unless you create a filter and save it as described in Chapter 28, Filters, filters you make here are not
preserved.
The manager has the following menu items (accessed with the Action button, or a right-click):
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Open —Opens the selected Event for modification. See Event Definition Editor for more
information.
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Restore Defaults —This item restores the original settings for the selected event.
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Set Behavior —Use the pick list to select Alarm, Suppress , or Reject . Alarm appears in the Alarm
viewer and be available in Event History.
Reject ignores the event entirely and it does not
appear in either Event History or the Alarm viewer.
Suppress does not display the event in the
Alarm viewer, but the event does appear in Event History.