Build the criteria hierarchy

The criteria hierarchy is stored in the criteria profile and is made up of criteria. A group of criteria is contained in a node.

The criteria hierarchy is made up of a combination of nodes and criteria. A node contains a group of criteria where the relationship between the criteria is determined by an AND or an OR relation. You can nest nodes in other nodes. By default, a top level AND node is created in the criteria hierarchy. You can create other AND or OR nodes nested in this parent node. You can also add one or more criterion to the nodes. Add an AND node when all of the criteria defined in the node must be fulfilled. Add an OR node when at least one of the criteria defined in the node must be fulfilled.

In this example, define a criterion that logs all events whose name begins with CRITICAL_EVENT and with event argument equal to 789.

  1. Click new criterion icon to create a new criterion in the default AND node.
  2. In Description, type Criterion 1.
  3. In EVENTID, click addition sign icon to add criteria to specify the value for the EVENTID field.
  4. Leave the default value Select to indicate to use the selection criterion specified when processing events.
  5. In Options, select Pattern and in Single Value or Lower Limit, type CRITICAL_EVENT*.
    This sets the condition for the event name.
  6. In EVENTPARM, click addition sign icon to add criteria to specify the value for the EVENTPARM field.
  7. Leave the default value Select to indicate to use the selection criterion specified when processing events.
  8. In Options, select Equal to and in Single Value or Lower Limit, type 789.
    This sets the condition for the event argument.
  9. Click Save to save the criterion definition.
The criteria profile now contains a criterion that specifies which raised events must be logged. You can continue to create another criteria in the same parent node or you can nest either an AND or an OR node in the parent node to determine the logical relation between the criteria that the nested node will contain. Add an AND node within which you can create one or more criteria where all the criteria specified in the node must be fulfilled, or add an OR node within which you can create one or more criteria where at least one of the criteria specified must be fulfilled.
To apply this criteria profile so that it begins processing events according to the criteria defined, you must activate the criteria profile.