HP (Hewlett-Packard) HP OpenView Vantagepoint – Operation Manual for UNIX User Manual

Using the Integration Capabilities of the VPO Motif-based GUI

This section describes:

❏ Setting conditions for incoming messages
❏ Setting conditions for incoming SNMP traps

The Message and Suppress Conditions window enables you to specify
which messages are to be intercepted from the source and forwarded to
the management server, and which messages are to be discarded.

You can specify multiple message and suppress conditions, and freely
mix the order and type of conditions. With suppress conditions, you can
also choose to suppress either messages that match the match condition,
or those that don’t match the match condition. Take care when specifying
the order of conditions as they are processed in the order of the list. VPO
stops processing as soon as a condition matches, so it is recommended to
list more specific conditions above the more general conditions. If you
don’t do this, a general condition may match before the more specific
condition is even applied.

If the first condition that matches is a message condition, the message is
forwarded to the VPO Message Browser, and any configured actions are
invoked. If the message matches a suppress condition, depending on the
type of suppression configured, it is discarded. If a message matches
neither message conditions nor suppress conditions, it is flagged
unmatched as previously discussed.

As you can define multiple message and suppress conditions for each
template, VPO provides the Message and Suppress Conditions
window to list the conditions already defined. This window lets you add
and delete conditions, or to select specific conditions for modification. You
can also change the sequence of conditions in the list.