Selecting the events that trigger an event action

The event automation plan uses event filters to monitor for the occurrence of one or more specified events. When these events occur, your event automation plan responds with one or more customized event actions.

About this task
The types of events from which you can select and the ways that you can filter the events are broadly divided between the following categories:
  • Common event filters
  • Advanced event filters

Common event filters are predefined simple filters that monitor for events of common interest in systems management. For example, the Disks event filter is triggered by any hard disk events and the Fans event filter is triggered by any fan events. The Event Automation Plan wizard provides several common event filters so you can create typically required event automation plans quickly and easily. For more information about event filters, see "Event filters."

If you want to monitor specific events that are not included in the common event filters, then you must select advanced event filters. Not only can you specify additional events, but you also can create more sophisticated event filters that are triggered when duplicates of an event are received, when a specific number of instances of an event is received over a range of time, or when a specific event is received but you want to exclude another event. For information about specifying specific events, see "Selecting specific events for filtering." For more information about event filters, see "Event filters."
Note: This task requires the IBM® Systems Director Launched Tasks program. This program is installed automatically the first time you use a task that requires it. For information about the IBM Systems Director Launched Tasks program, see "Starting the IBM Systems Director Launched Tasks program."

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