What has changed about Rules

The Rule Processor supports the following new event types if you have the BMC MainView Automation solution (product code MVN) active in the BBI-SS PAS:

HWTO: specifies either early or interim WTOs that are issued while MainView AutoOPERATOR is not up.

The Rule Processor processes these WTOs as HWTO events.

the following chapters in the MainView AutoOPERATOR Basic Automation Guide, Volume 1: Using Rules:

• Chapter 3, 'Describing events'

The following new built-in functions are supported in this version:

• EXtract( ): extracts a variable-length delimited string from another string

• PArse( ): returns the nth word of a string

• CNVTUOM( ): returns a normalized value from a value with a scaling suffix

• LIKE( ): returns a TRUE or FALSE after matching a string to a pattern

the following chapters in the MainView AutoOPERATOR Basic Automation Guide, Volume 1: Using Rules:

• Chapter 7, 'Creating more powerful Rules'