Filtering an Event

To filter an event, you must create a filtering rule. A filtering rule is an event processing rule that identifies events you want Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 (MOM) to ignore. You can specify a type of filter:

Pre-filter For events matching the filter, MOM stops evaluating further processing rules, and does not save matching events to the database.
Database filter For events matching the filter, MOM continues evaluating processing rules, but does not save matching events to the database.
Conditional filter For events matching the filter, MOM continues evaluating processing rules, but saves events to the database only if another processing rule match occurs.

To create a filtering rule:

  1. Expand Microsoft Operations Manager (default) in the left pane.
  2. Expand Rules in the left pane.
  3. Expand Processing Rule Groups in the left pane.
  4. Expand the processing rule group to which you want to add the new filtering rule. For information about creating a processing rule group, see Creating a Processing Rule Group.
  5. Click Event Processing Rules in the left pane.
  6. Click Action on the menu bar.
  7. Click Filter Event on the Action menu.
  8. Follow the instructions until you have completed creating the filtering rule. For more information about the fields on a window, click Help.