Modify an event and send it

Resends the event that originally triggered the event automation plan. Before resending the event, the action modifies the event data, such as its text and severity, to your specification.

Requirements
None
Result
The triggering event and the event that this event action generates are both logged in the Event Log. The event that this event action generates contains the text and event type from the original triggering event.
Example
Use this event action when you want to send a secondary event that contains information from the first event. You can change or add to the event text. Also, you can change the event severity; for some events, this capability is useful when you want to increase the severity level.

For example, by default an IBM® Director Agent Topology Offline event has a severity of informational. If you have created an event automation plan to filter critical events and you want the Topology Offline event to be treated as such, you can use this event action to change the severity of this event. Create a simple filter for the IBM Director Agent Topology Offline event. Then, use the Modify an event and send it event action to resend the event, but change the severity to critical in the New event severity field. Now, the critical event filter will catch the event and the event automation plan will perform the prescribed action.

Note: You can use event-data-substitution variables to include event-data information into the new event text. For more information, see "Event-data-substitution variables." The detail slot setting also accepts event-data-substitution variables; however, using event-data-substitution variables in the detail slot setting can cause errors if not done correctly.
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