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Steps in Creating Filters, Dispatches and Actions

To create the filters, dispatches and actions for reporting events, follow these steps:

1. Decide on what events you need to be reported, such as: all events of a specific class; all events of a certain priority from a specific system; and so on.

   This determines the number of filters that you need to create.

2. Decide on how you want the different events to be reported (the amount of information and the destination), and when (time of day and day of week).

   This determines the number of dispatches that you need to create for each filter.

3. Decide on whether or not the supplied action routines can do what you require.
4. If you need to create an action routine, you must decide on whether the action routine is to handle a single event, or multiple events. You must create your action routines before you can set up the appropriate dispatches.
5. Decide on what scans you need to create. To associate the events to be reported with a serviced system, you must create one or more scans. A scan can contain one or more events, as well as other scans.
6. Add the events to be reported.
7. Add the scans containing the appropriate events.
8. For each event, add the filter and dispatch criteria. If you need to use an action routine you have created, then this must be created before you can set up the appropriate dispatch.