Creating a Distributed Event Action Plan

Distributed event action plans are created in the Event Action Plan Builder window.

To open the Event Action Plan Builder window from the Management Console, click on the Event Action Plan Builder button on the toolbar.

To open the Event Action Plan Builder window from the Event Action Plans window, right-click anywhere in the Event Action Plans pane to display the context menu, then select Build Event Action Plan.

The Event Action Plan Builder window is displayed.

To create a distributed event action plan:

  1. Right-click on Distributed Event Action Plan in the Event Action Plans pane to access the context menu, then select New.
  2. Enter the name you want to assign to the plan and click OK to save the new plan. The new plan entry with the name you assigned is displayed as a child entry of Distributed Event Action Plan in the Event Action Plans pane. Now that you have defined a distributed event action plan, you can assign one or more filters and actions to the plan.
  3. Notes:

    The distributed event action plan is also added to the Event Action Plans task as a child entry in the %ProductName% Console and to the Event Action Plans pane in the Event Actions Plans window.

  4. Assign at least one filter to the distributed event action plan: drag the event filter from the Event Filters pane to the event action plan in the Event Action Plans pane.

    The filter is now displayed as a child entry under the plan.

  5. Assign at least one action to at least one filter in the distributed event action plan: drag the action from the Actions pane to the target event filter under the desired event action plan in the Event Action Plans pane.

    The action is now displayed as a child entry under the filter.

  6. Repeat the previous two steps for as many filter and action pairings as you want to add to the plan. You can assign multiple actions to a single filter and multiple filters to a single plan.

Note: The plan you have just created is not active because it has not been applied to a system or a group. Applying an Event Action Plan to a System or Group describes how to apply an event action plan or a distributed event action plan to a system or group.

Note: When distributed to target systems, a distributed event action plan is added to the systems as a regular event action plan that has automatically been applied to the pre-defined All Systems and Devices group.

Follow the same procedure by selecting a distributed event action plan instead of an event action plan.