Users Guide

Automation and Event Processing Rules | Alarms, Events, and Automation
302 OMNM 6.5.3 User Guide
Description
—Enter an optional text description of the rule
Alarm Only —Visible only in automation rules. Check this to enable the rule only if an alarm is
generated, not suppressed.
Explicit Membership — Visible only in automation rules. This indicates that this rule has explicit
membership. If any explicit members are defined for a rule, then the event must be associated
with one of these entities in order for this rule to execute. This box must be checked in order
to enable the buttons to add entities on the Explicit Members tab.
Enabled —Select this option to enable the rule.
Filtering/Settings
For all rule types, select the Event Definition . Click Add to open a screen where you can select
events to include in the event you are creating. This includes a filter at the top that you can use to
search for specific events. For example, Event Name Contains. Click Add Selection to include
selected items in this filter, or Add All to include all displayed events. After you finish event
selection, click Done at the bottom of this selection screen.
Click
Add Filter to further filter the selected events. See Defining Advanced Filters on page 147
for more about this feature. After you
Add Filter the button changes to Clear Filter so you can
remove any filter from the event rule.
NOTE:
OpenManage Network Manager supports multiple IP addresses per resource. During event processing,
filters that include IP address criteria may behave incorrectly when OpenManage Network Manager
evaluates the filter. Best practice is using resource name(s) instead of IP addresses.