An event is a notification from one or more monitoring tools that indicate something
of interest has occurred, such as a log message, warning, or error.
The manner in which events process and alerts generate are based on the following
factors:
- Event collection configuration via MID Server, script, SNMP trap collector,
email.
- Event rule, alert binding, and event field mapping configuration for processing
events from various sources.
You can view event information in the following places:
- The event list view displays the entire list of events.
- Under Event rules, see Create or edit an event rule, you
can view a list of individual events or a group of events that are not
associated with any event rule.
- If an event rule or event field mapping used the event or group of events to
generate an alert, the event information appears in the
Activity section of the alert.
When a package of events is processed with events containing a custom (non-supported)
state, all events in the package are processed except events with the custom state.
