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Filtering Alarms by Property Groups

When you filter alarms by property groups, you are specifying that you only want to display alarm instances in the NerveCenter Client from particular nodes belonging to one or more property groups.

Although you can create a filter simply based on membership within a property group, a single filter can contain any combination of:

• A list of subnets
• A list of severities
• A list of property groups

For information on how to build an alarm-instance filter based on an IP range and severities, see the respective section listed below:

• Filtering Alarms by IP Range
• Filtering Alarms by Severity

 
  To create an alarm filter based on property groups:

1. Choose Configuration from the Client menu.

   The Client Configuration dialog is displayed.

   Client Configuration Dialog

   

2. Select the Alarm Filter Modification tab.

   The Alarm Filter Modification page is displayed.

   Alarm Filter Modification Page

   

3. Select the New button.

   The Alarm Filter Definition dialog is displayed.

   Alarm Filter Definition Dialog

   

   This is the dialog you use to define your filter.

4. Select the Property Group tab.

   The Property Group page is displayed.

   Property Group Page

   

5. In the Available Property Groups list, for each property group of each alarm instance's node, perform the steps below for each property group you want to be part of the filter. That is, you want to see information about instances whose nodes belong to these property groups.

   The property groups in this list box are the union of the property groups defined by all of the servers to which you're connected.

   The name of the property group is moved to the Selected Property Groups list. Information about alarm instances with this property will be displayed in the alarm summary views. Optionally, you can also add a user-defined property group to the list of properties to filter by entering a property group in the And User-specified Property Group text box, and then selecting the >> button.

   To remove a property group from the Selected Properties list, select the property group and then select the << button.

6. Enter a name for your filter in the Filter Name field.
7. Select the OK button.

   The Alarm Filter Definition dialog is closed and you return to the Client Configuration dialog box.

You've now defined an alarm filter based on property groups. Before the client will use the filter, however, you must associate the filter with a server. For instructions on how to create this association, see the section Associating a Filter with a Server.