To create a seasonal event rule, you must specify the selected
events or time conditions, or both in the Create Rule or Modify
Existing Rule window.
About this task
The seasonal event that is
selected by default in the Event Selection pane is the seasonal event from which the Create Rule or Modify Existing
Rule window was opened.Note: A seasonal event rule suppresses events when
they occur for a deployed related event group. The seasonal rule actions do not apply to the
synthetic parent event that is created.
Note: You can create a seasonal event rule to unsuppress an event or
alarm. This rule has no actions if there are no suppressed alarms.
Procedure
To specify the selected events and time conditions, complete
the following steps in the Create Rule window.
- In the Event Selection section of the GUI, hover over
Event(s) Selected.
The
Summary
field value of the
seasonal event on which the rule is based is displayed in hover help.
Note: The
Summary
field does not uniquely identify the specific seasonal event on which this
rule will be based. If you want to check the seasonal event on which this rule will be based, close
this dialog box. The seasonal event row selected in the Seasonal Event report is the one on which
this rule will be based.
Tip: It is good practice to add the event identity field
to the Seasonal Event report. Doing this helps you to uniquely identify a seasonal event. For
information on how to do this, see
Adding report fields.
- To select all, or one or more of the events that are related to this seasonal event, complete the following steps.
- To select all of the related events, select the Select all related
events check box.
- To select a subset of the related events, click Edit Selection,
and then in the dialog box, select one or more related events and click
OK.
Note: One of the events listed in the dialog box is the original seasonal event. This event remains
selected, even if you unselect it in the dialog box.
The number of events selected in total (the number of selected related events plus the one
seasonal event) is now displayed next to Event(s) Selected. Hovering over
this field now displays the Identifier
field value of all of the events
selected.
- To select a time condition, complete the following steps.
- Select one of the following time condition filter conditions.
- AND
- Select AND to apply rule actions to each
of the selected the time conditions.
- OR
- Select OR to apply rule actions to individual
time conditions.
- Select Minute of the Hour, Hour
of the Day, Day of Week, or Day
of Month from the drop-down menu.
- Select Is or Is Not from
the drop-down menu.
- Select the appropriate minute, hour, day, or date from
the drop-down menu. You can select multiple values from this drop-down
menu.
Note: High, medium, and low seasonality labels are
applied to this time selection drop-down menu to indicate the seasonality
of the events occurring at that time.
- Click the add button to add another time condition.
- To save the event selection and time conditions, choose
one of the following criteria.
- Select Watch to monitor the rule's
performance before it is deployed.
- Select Deploy to activate the
rule.
Results
The seasonal event rule
conditions are applied to the selected seasonal event and to any selected related events, if these
events occur at the time or times specified in the time conditions.