Designing and Managing Behavior Models - Performing Actions Conditionally
(Action Router) - Creating an Action Router Rule - Defining a Rule Action -
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Defining a Rule Action

Once you've created an Action Router rule condition, as described in the section Defining a Rule Condition, you must create a rule action to complete your Action Router rule. This action rule contains descriptions of one or more actions that you want to be performed when the rule condition is met.

 
  To create an action rule:

1. In the Rule Composition window, select the Rule Action tab.

   The Rule Action page is displayed.

   Rule Action Page

   

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2. Select the New Action button.

   A pop-up menu listing the actions that you can perform via the Action Router appears. Except for the Action Router and Alarm Counter actions, you can add to the rule any action that you can perform from an alarm transition:

   • Beep
   • Clear Trigger
   • Command
   • Delete Node
   • EventLog
   • Fire Trigger
   • Inform
   • Inform OpC
   • Inform Platform
   • Log to Database
   • Log to File
   • Microsoft Mail
   • Notes
   • Paging
   • Perl Subroutine
   • Send Trap
   • Set Attribute
   • SMTP Mail
   • SNMP Set

     For a description of what an action does, see the appropriate section in Alarm Actions.

3. Select an action from the list.

   All of the actions except Delete Node and Notes require parameters, so a dialog box appears. Again, refer to the appropriate section in Chapter for an explanation of how to supply the necessary parameters.

4. Repeat step 2 and step 3 for each action that you want to add to the rule action.
5. Select the Save button at the bottom of the Rule Composition window.