Job Management Partner 1/Integrated Management - Manager Overview and System Design Guide

3.2.6 Defining filter conditions

As the conditions in a filter, you can define exclusion conditions and pass conditions. Exclusion conditions are a set of conditions for JP1 events that you do not want to display (acquire). Pass conditions are a set of conditions for JP1 events that you do want to display (acquire). As a separate class of conditions, there are also common exclusion conditions, which allow you to disable or apply a condition group in an event acquisition filter. Filter conditions apply in the following order of precedence: common exclusion conditions, exclusion conditions, and pass conditions.

You can define a combination of common exclusion conditions, exclusion conditions, or pass conditions in a condition group. A condition group contains one or more conditions, and is satisfied when all the defined conditions are satisfied. That is, the conditions in a filter are related by an AND condition.

When a filter consists of exclusion conditions and pass conditions, combined into multiple condition groups of either type, those JP1 events matching the conditions in one of the exclusion condition groups are filtered out, and those JP1 events matching the conditions in one of the pass condition groups pass through the filter and are transferred to the higher-level control (see Figure 3-7 Filters provided by JP1/IM and JP1/Base (when not using the integrated monitoring database) and Figure 3-8 Filters provided by JP1/IM and JP1/Base (when using the integrated monitoring database)). That is, the condition groups of exclusion conditions or pass conditions are related by an OR condition.

The following figure shows how a filter works.

Figure 3-9 Event transfer through a filter to higher-level control

Except for the JP1/Base forwarding filter, you define filter conditions in JP1/IM - View.

Organization of this subsection

(1) Common exclusion conditions (event acquisition filter only)

(2) Exclusion conditions

(3) Pass conditions

(1) Common exclusion conditions (event acquisition filter only)

Common exclusion conditions form part of an event acquisition filter and consist of a group of conditions for filtering out JP1 events. You can apply or disable each group. In maintenance mode, for example, you can set a common-exclusion condition group to temporarily filter out JP1 events issued by the host you are working on, without having to change the pass conditions or exclusion conditions in the event acquisition filter. If you have defined multiple event acquisition filters, and switch among them as required, the common exclusion conditions you set apply to whichever filter is in force.

Of the conditions defined in an event acquisition filter, common exclusion conditions take precedence over exclusion conditions, which take precedence over pass conditions. To define common exclusion conditions, JP1/Base version 09-00 or later is required on the JP1/IM - Manager host.

The following figure shows the relationships among the common exclusion conditions, exclusion conditions, and pass conditions in event acquisition filters.

Figure 3-10 Relationships among the filter conditions in event acquisition filters

(2) Exclusion conditions

Exclusion conditions filter out events. JP1 events that match any one of the defined condition groups do not pass through the filter. Exclusion conditions take precedence over pass conditions. To define exclusion conditions, JP1/Base version 09-00 or later is required on the JP1/IM - Manager host.

You can define exclusion conditions in an event acquisition filter, event receiver filter, severe events filter, view filter, and in event searches.

(3) Pass conditions

Pass conditions display (acquire) events. JP1 events that match any one of the defined condition groups pass through the filter.

You can define pass conditions in an event acquisition filter, event receiver filter, severe events filter, view filter, and in event searches.

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