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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
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