Owner's Manual

NMS200 Portlets
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ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200
Rule Editor
After you select between pre- and post-processing rules for new rules, the following screens
manage the event processing described in brief in the Rule Editor Example on page 59. The
following screens and fields appear in this editor.
• General
• Filtering / Settings
• Syslog Escalation Criteria (for pre-processing Syslog rules)
• Actions (for post-processing, automation rules)
The following sections describe these in detail.
General
The General screen is common to all rule types.
It contains the following fields:
• Name — A text identifier for the rule.
• Description — An optional text description of the rule
• Alarm Only — This is visible only in post-processing r
ules. Check this to enable the rule
only if an alarm is generated, not suppressed.
• Enabled — Check this 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 incudes a filter at the top that you
can use to search for specific events. For example: Event Name Contains ________. You
can then click Add Selection to include selected items in this filter, or Add All to include all