Overview of the Intelligent Event Suppression screen

From the Intelligent Event Suppression screen, you can enable, disable, and delete Intelligent Event Suppression rules, as well as access the dialog box that allows you to create Intelligent Event Suppression rules. The Intelligent Event Suppression Administration screen is accessed by selecting Options > Administration and in the Advanced area, clicking the Edit link to the right of Intelligent Event Suppression.

Intelligent Event Suppression screen

The Select column allows you to select the check box of the Intelligent Event Suppression relationship that you want to delete.

The Name column displays the name of the Intelligent Event Suppression relationship. Relationship names are formed from the primary group, device, or monitor (the event that suppresses the events from the secondary event), and the secondary group, device or monitor separated by an arrow to indicate the direction of the relationship.

Default global relationships are shipped with BMC ProactiveNet and are immediately visible when you access the Intelligent Event Suppression screen. These out-of-the-box relationships are not editable. This is indicated by the lock icon in the Edit column for each of the default relationships. Only the Ping/Availability > Device SameDevice;SameSourceAgent relationship is enabled by default. 

You can obtain more information about the relationship by hovering your cursor over the more information icon .

The information displayed by the more information icon is provided by the Description box available when you create an Intelligent Event Suppression relationship. For more information about providing a description, see Adding or editing an Intelligent Event Suppression relationship. 

The Enabled column allows you to enable and disable relationships. If a relationship is enabled, the Enabled check box for that relationship is selected. For more information, see Enabling or disabling Intelligent Event Suppression relationships.

The Edit column allows you to edit the scope and other attributes of the associated relationship. For more information, see Adding or editing an Intelligent Event Suppression relationship. 

The Add button allows you to add a new Intelligent Event Suppression relationship. For more information, see Adding or editing an Intelligent Event Suppression relationship.

The Delete button allows you to delete any Intelligent Event Suppression relationship that is selected in the Select column.