HP Operations Manager

Create a suppress condition from within the message browser


From within the message browser, you can create a new condition for a message that suppresses future generation of the message. When you select a message to create a suppress condition, as described below, the system creates a policy condition that instructs the agent to suppress generation of messages that match the selected message's original event text.

In this way, you can control the type and number of messages that appear in the message browser and can respond quickly to message storms by suppressing messages generated from a particular policy.

To create a suppress condition

  1. From within the message browser, select the message for which you want to create the suppress condition and right-click to open the context menu.
  2. Select Policy Create Suppress Condition from the menu to open the appropriate policy editor, which displays the New Rule dialog with the Condition tab active and the generated default displayed. Accept the defaults.
  3. Select the Actions tab. The default setting for here for suppress conditions is Do nothing: stop evaluation.
  4. If you prefer, you can change the default to suppress the message based on some criteria other than the message text. Provide a description of the rule and specify its conditions.
  5. Click OK. Your new rule will appear on the Rules tab of the policy editor dialog box. Incoming messages matching the criteria in this rule will be suppressed and will not appear in the message browser.
Note NOTE:
Not all policy types offer the Create message suppression menu option.because they do not have condition IDs. Scheduled policy type is an example. For these policy types, the Policy Edit Policy menu option opens the appropriate policy editor to the specific policy that generated the message.

Details on setting conditions for several specific policy types can be found in help in this path:

Administering your Environment Event Policy Editors Configure Rules Configure Conditions.