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Status Monitor Message Details

The status monitor message details specify rules that can be triggered by messages to perform actions.

From the Status Monitor Messages panel, you can set up message rules to perform actions that are message dependent. The information defined on this panel includes the message identifier and text, the message rule priority, and the effect of the rule on the resource state. You can define up to 97 lines of message rules.

The rule priority is only significant when rules overlap. Priorities are organized in descending numeric order. For example, the value 10 indicates a higher priority than the value 20. If rules overlap, only the rule with the highest priority is processed. If overlapping rules have the same priority value, the most specific rule has the highest priority. For a set of overlapping rules, the rules are sorted in the order of decreasing priority.

The modifiable Status fields are optional. If a Status field is blank, the message rule does not trigger a state change.

The region uses the rules to monitor the messages for the particular resource. If a rule is triggered, the resource state is updated according to the value in the Status column.