Step 5. Creating ALERTs as additional action specification

Occasionally, you might want a Rule to generate a BMC AMI Ops Automation ALERT as part of the actions a Rule takes.

BMC AMI OpsA ALERTs are special exception messages that BMC AMI OpsA creates for operators to notify them of exceptional situations that might require their intervention and attention.

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When you create an ALERT from a Rule, a set of Alert Action(s) - event type panels are always displayed after the Action Specification panels; these panels are as follows:

  • Alert Action(s) I - event type

    This panel is the primary ALERT action specification panel and, with the exception of the ALRT event type, it provides the same fields for all event types. The panel that is displayed for ALRT event type has an additional field; refer to Creating-ALERTs-for-the-ALRT-event-type for more information.

  • Alert Action(s) II - event type

    This panel is the secondary ALERT action specification panel. The event type field shows the name of event type you specified in the Event Type field on the Rule Processor Detail Control panel.

These panels contain the keywords that match the keywords you would use to create an ALERT from an IMFEXEC CLIST or REXX EXEC and all the functions that you can specify in an IMFEXEC CLIST or REXX EXEC are available on these panels.

The following sections describe the Alert Action(s) action specification panels; for information about specific fields, refer to Alert-Actions-I-and-II-fields.

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