Creating a new suppression policy

A suppression policy specifies the events that the receiving cell should delete. Unlike a blackout event management policy, the suppression event management policy maintains no record of the deleted event.

To create a new suppression policy

1. From the Event Management Policies tab of the Administration View, expand the By Policy Type folder.
2. Under the By Policy Type folder, select Suppression Policy.
3. Click Add Policy . 
   
   A Selector Chooser dialog box is displayed.
   
4. From the Selector Chooser dialog box, select the event selector that you want to use for this policy and click OK. 
   
    The Suppression Policy Details tab is displayed in the details pane of the Administration View, as shown in the following figure.
   
   Suppression Policy Details tab
   
5. In the Policy Name field, type a unique alphanumeric name for the event management policy. The name must contain no spaces
6. In the Description field, type a description of the event management policy.
7. To enable the event management policy, select the Enabled check box. If you do not want to enable the policy at this time, you can return to this dialog box and enable the policy later.
8. In the Policy Activation Timeframes section, define the periods of time the event management policy should be active (when enabled) by performing the following actions:
   1. Select one of the following choices:
      • To make the event management policy active continuously, select Always Active.
      • To specify when the policy is active or inactive, select Define Activation Timeframes.
         The Active Timeframes and Not Active Timeframes check boxes are enabled.
   2. If you selected Define Activation Timeframes, depending on how you want to define the timeframe for your policy do one or both of the following:
      • To specify the periods of time when the policy should be active, select the Active Timeframes check box and one or more timeframes from its scrollable list. 

      • To specify the periods of time when the policy should be inactive, select the Not Active Timeframes check box and one or more timeframes from its scrollable list.

        Note

        You can select both check boxes to create active and inactive time periods. However, the inactive time period takes precedence over the active time period.

9. Click OK.
   
   administration console saves the defined event management policy, and it is displayed in the list of event policies for the selected event selector.