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Understanding the Rules Language

The CA Automation Point rules language is a set of keywords and symbolic variables that you use to create rules. Through rules, CA Automation Point automates system tasks by managing messages, variables, and commands. Each rule specifies a message, group of messages, a command, a group of commands, or time interval to which CA Automation Point responds. When a message displays in a console session that CA Automation Point controls, it processes any rules related to that message and displays the resulting message (if any) in the Merged Msg window, and in either the Normal Message Recall or the Action Message Recall window. When a user issues a command through CA Automation Point, it processes any rules related to that command.