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How to Apply Suppression and Summarization on Agent Components

You can assign suppression rules, summarization rules, or both to agent groups, agents, or connectors in your environment. These rules can replace or supplement any suppression or summarization rules applied at the CA User Activity Reporting Module server. Therefore, you streamline the event transmission/reception process by controlling where event refinement takes place.

For example, if you have a Windows agent group, you can associate a suppression rule that eliminates unnecessary Windows events to the agents in the group. You eliminate the need for all incoming events to undergo a Windows-specific check at the CA User Activity Reporting Module server.

You can apply suppression or summarization rules at different levels of the agent folder hierarchy:

• From the Agent Explorer folder, you can apply rules to any agent groups, individual agents, or connectors.
• From a specific agent group folder, you can apply rules to all agents within that group and all the connectors assigned to them.
• From an individual agent, you can apply rules only to that agent and any connectors assigned to it.

The process of applying suppression or summarization rules on the agent components has the following steps:

1. Opening the manage rules wizard.
2. Selecting targets; agent groups, agents, or connectors.
3. Choosing suppression rules to apply.
4. Choosing summarization rules to apply.

You can also remove suppression or summarization rules from multiple agent groups, agents, or connectors using the manage rules wizard.

More information:

Open Manage Summarization Rules Wizard

Select Suppression and Summarization Targets

Choose Suppression Rules to Apply

Choose Summarization Rules to Apply