Rules display
At the top of the Rules display are two buttons, and details of how the display
has been sorted shown. Each row of the Rules display corresponds to one rule,
showing the Fault ID, Summary, default severity of the alarm / log, the new
severity (or "No change"), whether the alarm / log is acknowledged or suppressed,
and any notes you have provided about the rule.
The following is a summary of the actions you can take; more details of each
action are provided below.
- Double-clicking on a row (or pressing Enter) opens
a new window showing details of the alarm or log. This allows you to change
what severity the rule assigns to the alarm or log, the cause, the effect,
the suggested action, and an associated problem description (if any).
- Right-clicking on a row provides a context menu. From this context
menu, you can edit the rule (as with Double-clicking), or delete the rule.
If you delete the rule, you will prompted to confirm this.
- Left-clicking on a row selects that row.
- Shift-clicking allows you to select a range of rows. First, left
click on the row at the top or bottom of the range, then press Shift and
click the row at the other end of the range.
- Control-clicking allows you to select or deselect multiple individual
rows; pressing the Control (Ctrl) key and clicking on a row will select
or deselect it, without deselecting any other rows.
- When you have multiple rows selected, the context menu will allow you
to edit the rule that is first in the list. You can delete multiple rules
at once, and will be prompted to confirm this, as normal.
- Left-clicking on a column header (such as Fault ID, or Ack'd) sorts
the rows based on the value of that column. You can reverse the sort order
by clicking again on the column header. The column used for sorting is shown
with an asterisk (*) next to its name, and is described at the top right
of the alarms display.
- You can change the order of the columns by clicking on the column header
and dragging it to the left or right. You can change the width of a column
by clicking on the border between two columns and dragging it to the left
or right.
- You can create a new rule by pressing the create new rule button
at the top of the display. When you press this, a new "Create / edit rule" window
opens.
The "create / edit rule*quot; window
A similar window is displayed whether you are creating a new rule or editing
an existing rule.
- You will need to provide the Fault ID of the alarm / log you want to create
a rule for. The Summary and Default severity are filled in automatically
when the rule is created. These are the Match criteria.
Because you need to provide the Fault ID, you will usually find it much
easier to create a rule using an existing log or alarm in the Logs display
or Alarms display.
- If you want to alter the severity of the alarm / log, check the New
severity box, and then select the new severity from the drop down box.
- If you want to suppress the log, check the Suppressed box.
- If you want to acknowledge the log, check the Acknowledged box.
- If you want to add any descriptive notes to the rule (for example, to
describe who added it or why), fill in the Notes text field.
- Click Ok to create the rule. If the Fault ID does not correspond
to a known alarm or log, you will be prompted to correct this.
- Click Cancel to return to the Rules display without creating
the rule.
When you edit an existing rule, you will see the same options as for creating
a new rule.
- You cannot alter the Match criteria - the Fault ID, Summary, or Default
severity.
- You can change the New severity, Acknowledged, and Suppressed options,
or the Notes, exactly as if you were creating a new rule.
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When creating, editing, or deleting rules, it may take up
to 5 minutes for the changes to be applied to new incoming alarms or logs. |
Deleting rules
To delete a rule, right-click on the rule in the Rules display and select
delete from the context menu. You will be prompted to confirm that you want
to delete the rule. If you have multiple rules selected, you can delete them
all at once.