Users Guide

Automation and Event Processing Rules | Alarms, Events, and Automation
298 OMNM 6.5.3 User Guide
You can view the value for most of the hidden columns by clicking the Settings tool, selecting the
columns tab, clicking Show for the appropriate column, and then applying the change.
Column Description
Rule Name A descriptive name given to the rule.
This field displays on the summary and expanded views by default.
Rule Category The stage in the event and/or alarm life cycle that the rule is triggered. For example:
• Protocol Translation rules trigger early in the life cycle when non-SNMP messages,
such as Syslog are received.
• Stream Based Correlation rules also trigger early in the life cycle to minimize the
event processing load on the application server and to improve throughput.
• Event Definition Override rules trigger after the aforementioned rule categories,
but prior to alarm correlation.
• Automation rules trigger a little later in the life cycle so that the results from the
execution of those rules are taken into account during automation.
This field displays on the summary and expanded views by default.
Rule Type Text that indicates what the rule does. For example, there are several rule types
within the Event Definition Override category that change specific event attributes
to override default values otherwise inherited from the event definition.
To consider a specific example of this, you can make an Event Definition Override
Event Processing Rule that sets an event as service-affecting. These rules override the
default service affecting field that would otherwise be entirely determined by the
event definition (as determined by the notification type).
Note: The installation provides some seeded event processing rules. You can edit
some seeded rules, others you cannot edit. If you edit a system seeded rule and want
to restore the default settings, you need to delete the rule from the portlet and then
enter
ocpinstall -s from an oware command line to re-seed the database.
This field displays on the summary and expanded views by default.
Event Name The event associated with the rule.
This field displays on the summary and expanded views by default.
Enabled An indicator that the rule is enabled (checkmark) or not (X).
This field displays on the summary and expanded views by default.
System An indicator that the rule is a system rule (checkmark) or a non-system (user-
defined) rule (X).
This field displays on the summary and expanded views by default.
Description Text describing the rule in more detail.
This field displays on the expanded view by default.
Widget Additional information about the selected rule, such as:
• Reference Tree shows the connection between the rule and its event.
• Rule Actions list any configured actions associated with the rule.
• Event Filter Summary shows configured filters for the selected rule.
The Widgets field is available only from the expanded view.
Component The component the rule accesses, such as Extreme Networks device driver.
Domain ID The identifier for the resource domain.
Icon The icon that represents this resource.
Valid
An indicator that the rule is valid (checkmark) or not (X).