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Associate Message Rules with Message Group Rules

To establish a relationship between a message rule and a message group rule, you must add an entry on the Related Message Group panel (the fifth panel in the sequence of Message Rule panel). The message rule is in turn added on the Message Group Details panel of the message group rule definition. The same message rule can be associated with up to five message group rules.

To associate a message rule with a message group rule

  1. Enter 5 from within the message rule definition, for example: 
     PROD------------------ EventView : Message Filter ----------------------TAPEMON
 Command ===> 5                                                  Function=UPDATE

 Ruleset Name ........ TAPEMON                        Rule Status ...+ ACTIVE__
 Short Description ... Mount request processing______

 . Expected Message -----------------------------------------------------------.
 |                                       S=ListPanels EV=ExtFilter TV=TestVars |
 |      Message Text  ( WildChar = * )                                  ExtFlt |
 | ___  IEC501A                                                         NO     |
 ’-----------------------------------------------------------------------------’

    The Related Message Group panel appears.

  2. Add the message group rule. Optionally, specify a correlation key for precise recognition purposes.

    The following panel shows an example:

     PROD---------------- EventView : IEC501A Related Message Group ---------TAPEMON
 Command ===>                                                    Function=UPDATE

 . Message Group Table --------------------------------------------------------.
 |                                                                             |
 | MsgGroupID   CorrelationKey                                                 |
 | GROUP1______ &ZMSGJOBNM____________________________________________________ |
  3. Press F3 (File).

    The message rule is updated and added to the message group rule definition, for example:

     PROD---------------- EventView : Message Group Details -----------------TAPEMON
 Command ===>                                                    Function=UPDATE

 Ruleset Name ......... TAPEMON
 Message Group Name ... GROUP1                        Rule Status ...+ ACTIVE__
 Short Description .... Tape mount group______________
 Interval ............ 00.10.00
 
 . Expected Message -----------------------------------------------------------.
 |                                                         S/B=Browse U=Update |
 |      Message Rule Text                                                      |
 | ___ IEC501A                                                                 |
 | ___ IEC509A                                                                 |
 | ___                                                                         |

The correlation key enables one message group rule to cover numerous different situations, saving you from having to create numerous different rules. The rule is not triggered unless the values of the correlation keys in each of the grouped messages match.

For example, the correlation key as shown in the example, is the name of the variable that contains the job name. The group rule is triggered only if the messages associated with the group: