Event filters

A filter specifies one or more events that you want your event automation plan to process. The event automation plan ignores any event instances that do not meet the specifications of the filter. Typically, you will use the common event filters that are provided in the Event Automation Plan wizard. Occasionally there are situations where you will want to create a sophisticated event filter. The event filters described in this section are available for such implementations. Using these filters, you can specify details for an event such that it covers very specific problems and occurrences. To create filters quickly, default values are provided; however, you can customize the settings.

You can use a filter to capture a single event or multiple events. When designing an event filter, first determine whether the following criteria are met:

In addition to selecting the event types to filter, you also can select from four types of event filters: Simple, Duplication, Exclusion, and Threshold. Each filter offers different options for processing the selected event types.

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