Users Guide

Automation and Event Processing Rules | Alarms, Events, and Automation
OMNM 6.5.3 User Guide 301
8 Enter the User Name Variable and/or User Name RegEx match string.
This confines rule response to the selected users.
9 Select Suppress Correlated events if you do not want to see events correlated with this one.
10 Click Save to preserve the event processing rule.
NOTE:
To test these rules, you typically need specialized trap-sending software. However, you can make a rule
respond to an internal OpenManage Network Manager event, such as backup failure if you only want to
see the outcome. Simply disable your FTP server) and back up a device to get a backup failure event.
Rule Editor
After you select a category and type for a new rule, the Rule Editor is displayed, where you manage
the event processing described briefly in
Creating Event Processing Rules on page 300. The editor
has the following panels:
•
General
• Filtering/Settings
• Syslog Escalation Criteria (for Syslog Escalation)
•
Actions (for automation rules)
Subcomponent names must cache on the server if you want to refer to them in rules. For example,
if you want e-mail whenever a linkDown occurs on a port, then you must cache subcomponents. If
you cache subcomponents, it impacts performance, which is why such caching is disabled by
default.
To enable caching, set the following property in the installed.properties file and then restart the
Application server:
com.dorado.redcell.inventory.equipment.subcomponent.cache=true
General
The General panel is common to all rule types.
It contains the following fields:
Name —Enter a text identifier for the rule.