Understanding Group Events and Individual Events

A group event applies to all systems that are members of the defined group for which the event is generated. An individual event applies only to the system for which it is generated.

For example: The resource monitoring service enables you to select a system and create an individual threshold as well as select a group of systems and create a group threshold. The event generated as a result of the group threshold being met is a group event. The event generated as a result of the system threshold being met is an individual event.

Scenario

Assume:

If you apply the plan to "Event Group" and accept the default, unrestricted, if either the individual threshold or the group threshold triggers an event, you are paged.

If you apply the plan to "Event Group" and toggle unrestricted to restricted, you are paged only if the group threshold triggers an event; you are not paged if the individual threshold set for "Small Disk" triggers an event.

Assume that you delete the event action plan from the group and apply it to only the system for which you set an individual threshold, "Small Disk."

If you apply the plan to "Small Disk" and accept the default, unrestricted, because "Small Disk" is a member of "Event Group," if either the group threshold or the individual threshold triggers an event, you are paged.

If you apply the plan to "Small Disk" and toggle unrestricted to restricted, you are paged only if the individual threshold triggers an event; you are not paged if the threshold set for "Event Group" triggers an event.