Own a message

Owning a message means that you take responsibility for performing the actions associated with that message. As the owner, you have read-write access to the message. Other users may see this message in their browsers but have limited access to it.

For example, only the owner of a message can perform the following tasks:

• Restart an automatic command related to the message
• Start an operator-initiated command
• Disown the message
• Modify the message text
• Acknowledge the message
• Change message severity

You do not have to be the owner of a message to annotate it or modify custom message attributes.

An administrator can change the ownership of messages that other users currently own.

If you perform the following actions on an unowned message, you automatically become the owner of the message:

• Restart an automatic command related to the message
• Start an operator-initiated command
• Change the message severity
• Change the message text

You also become the owner of any message that you unacknowledge.