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Message Records

You identify events that require special handling by creating message record objects. You then specify the special handling requirements by creating message action objects that are associated with a particular message record object. Once defined, message records and message actions become an event handling policy that identifies events with special handling requirements and the tasks to perform when they are detected.

Event Management provides two categories of message records to identify important events:

• Message - Represents the output text string received by Event Management and displayed on the Event Console.
• Command - Represents the text string input by someone operating the Event Console. (You can enter commands at the command field of the console, use customized buttons to automatically issue commands, or enter them as command line arguments provided to the oprcmd utility.)

Command output can be a source of text to substitute into the message text in Management Database message records during the message matching process. For example, the string `pwd` in the MDB record message text field causes the current directory to be inserted into the message text.