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Filter Attributes

Each filter has attributes as described in the following table.

Attribute

Description

Example

Name

Filter name as stored in the configuration database. This name must be unique for each filter.

Archive directory cleanup

Information

Description to clarify what the filter does.

Clear out archive directory when full

Interval

The period within which subsequent events matching the filter definition are ignored.

60 (duplicate events are ignored for 60 seconds)

Event Interval

The period within which all events matching the filter and event name are ignored.

0 (no events are ignored)

Events1

Event names that must match the detected event's name before it is allowed to be dispatched to the action routines.

CMgr Archive Area Full

Classes1

Class names, which must match the detected event's class before it can dispatch to the action routines.

CONSOLEmanager

Systems2

Systems that the event must come from before can dispatch to the action routines.

All

Subsystems

Events whose subsystems match the definition list.

Console

Groups2

Group of systems that events must come from before they are dispatched to the routines.

GROUP1

Priorities

The individual priority levels that the events selected for the filter must match for the dispatch entries to be invoked.

Critical

Dispatches

Actions to which the event is dispatched when the filter criteria are met.

Archive Cleanup

1Also, if a subset of Events is selected, and All Classes is also selected, then All Classes overrides the intended subset of Events definitions.

2If a subset of Systems is selected, and All Groups is also selected, then All Groups overrides the intended subset of Systems definitions.