4.2.1 Forwarding filter
The forwarding filter is used by JP1/Base to filter the JP1 events to be forwarded to another host.
JP1/IM performs centralized monitoring, where events generated on individual agents are issued as JP1 events and forwarded to the manager. Each agent filters the monitored JP1 events, and then forwards the filtered events to the higher manager. You can specify these target JP1 events in a forwarding filter. A forwarding filter can also be used to reduce JP1 event traffic when the load on a manager needs to be restricted or the network has limited capacity.
Forwarding filters are specific to each instance of JP1/Base. A forwarding settings file can be edited on each agent individually, or you can distribute forwarding setting information in a batch from a manager to the agents.
For details about the forwarding settings file, see the chapter where forwarding of JP1 events and definition files are described in the JP1/Base User's Guide.