Creating an Event Action Plan
Note: If your product license supports distributed event
action plans, this procedure also applies to the creation of distributed event
action plans; simply substitute the Distributed Event Action Plans object
for the Event Action Plans object in the instructions.
Event action plans are created in the Event Action Plan Builder window.
To open this window from the %ProductName% Console, click on the Event
Action Plan Builder icon on the toolbar. The Event Action Plan Builder window
is displayed.
To create an event action plan:
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Right-click on Event Actions Plan in the Event Action Plans pane
to access the context menu, then select New.
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Select File => New => Event Action Plan from the menu
bar.
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Double-click on one of the event action plan type folders in the Event Action
Plans pane.
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Enter the name you want to assign to the plan and click OK to save the
new plan. The new plan entry with the name you assigned is displayed in the Event
Action Plans pane. The plan is also added to the Event Action Plans
task as a child entry in the %ProductName% Console.
Now that you have defined an event action plan, you can assign one or more
filters and actions to the plan.
Notes:
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You can create a plan without having defined any filters or actions.
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The order in which you build a filter, action, and event action plan does not
matter.
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Assign at least one filter to the event action plan using one of the following
methods:
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Drag the event filter from the Event Filters pane to the event action
plan in the Event Action Plans pane.
-OR-
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Highlight the event action plan, then right-click on the event filter to display
the context menu and select Add to Event Action Plan.
-OR-
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Highlight the event filter, then right-click on the event action plan to display
the context menu and select Add Event Filter.
The filter is now displayed as a child entry under the plan.
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Assign at least one action to at least one filter in the event action plan using
one of the following methods:
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Drag the action from the Actions pane to the target event filter under
the desired event action plan in the Event Action Plans pane.
-OR-
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Highlight the target filter, then right-click on the desired action to display
the context menu and select Add to Event Action Plan.
-OR-
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Highlight the desired action, then right-click on the target filter to display
the context menu and select Add Action.
The action is now displayed as a child entry under the filter.
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Repeat the previous two steps for as many filter and action pairings as you want
to add to the plan. You can assign multiple actions to a single filter and
multiple filters to a single plan.
Note: The plan you have just created is not active because it has not
been applied to a system or a group. Applying
an Event Action Plan to a System or Group describes how to
apply an event action plan to a system or group.