Users Guide

Automation and Event Processing Rules | Alarms, Events, and Automation
308 OMNM 6.5.3 User Guide
Message Test
This screen lets you test your message against the pattern and/or template. Click the Tes t button to
the right of the top field to activate this testing.
Test Message —Enter a message to test.
Test Message Result —The text extracted for the event as it appears in the template after you click
the
Te s t button.
Click
Apply to accept these escalation criteria, or Cancel to abandon them without saving.
NOTE:
The default behavior of the syslogNotification is Reject rather than Suppress. This means that received
syslog messages have to match an escalation filter to become events. Users who want all received
syslog messages to become events must override this default setting and change the behavior to either
Suppress (which makes only events but no alarms) or Alarm (which makes alarms). Note that this default
behavior only affects messages that do not match any escalation filter. OpenManage Network Manager
processes those that match an escalation filter just the same regardless of what is the default behavior
of syslogNotification.
Explicit Members
This screen displays the explicit member entities that are associated with this rule. 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 be triggered. This is a convenient way of defining entity-specific filters for the
rule and you can also use this feature to allow the rule to behave differently based on the entity that
is associated with the triggering event. Please note that the Explicit Membership box on the
General tab must be checked in order to enable the buttons on this tab.