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: