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Benefits of Creating Exclusion Lists Using Menu Commands

BMC recommends that you use the menu options Stop Monitoring and Edit <application> Exclusion List to exclude application instances. These menu options are accessed from the pop-up menu of the instances.

The menu commands add two entries into the /AgentSetup/ application.filterList for each instance excluded.

  • The first entry is in the form pathname-instance, where slashes are replaced by dashes and the initial slash is omitted.
Example

mnt-hpserv-users indicates the filesystem /mnt/hpserv/users.

This entry is used by the collector in setting the consumer variables.

  • The second entry is in the form /pathname/instance.
Example

/mnt/hpserv/users indicates the filesystem /mnt/hpser/users.

This entry is used to display the instance in the <application> Exclusions dialog box. If you omit this entry, the instance will not appear in the dialog box.

The exclusion list feature is designed for ignoring a small number of instances. If you want BMC PATROL to ignore a majority of instances, you can create an inclusion list, which forces BMC PATROL to ignore all but the instances that you specify. However, monitoring by inclusion has a few limitations.

Related topics

Selecting-Disks-to-Monitor

Selecting-filesystems-to-monitor

Selecting-Printers-to-Monitor

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