Events, filters, and actions in event automation plans
An event automation plan lets you automatically respond to a situation in your IBM® Flex System Manager environment. By creating event automation plans and applying them to specific systems, you can be notified by e-mail, for example, when a specified threshold is reached or a specified event occurs. Or, you can configure an event automation plan to start a program on a system in response to the event.
What is an event automation plan?
Event automation plans are composed of three components: a target list that contains one or more system or group, a filter that specifies types of events; and one or more actions, which are invoked in response to filtered events. The Event Automation Plan wizard provides a quick and easy way to create event automation plans for common situations. If you want to create sophisticated event automation plans, it is important to understand the events that are generated in a systems-management environment, the event filters that specify the triggering events, and the event actions that can automate a response to the triggering event.
When you create an event automation plan, you include a filter and one or more actions. Finally, you apply the event automation plan to an individual system, several systems, or a group of systems.
How does IBM Flex System Manager use an event automation plan?
When IBM Flex System Manager receives an event, the server determines whether there is a plan for that type of event. If so, the server checks whether the event source is in the list of targets in the plan. If it is in the plan, then the server performs the action specified in the plan.