Customizing events

The Event Browser enables you to customize an event's properties. Customizing event properties is another way to filter events.

You may want to override the default severity or throttling parameters of any event code for the following reasons:

Previous occurrences of the event are not affected. You can revert to the default event definition at any time by deleting the customized version of the event.

To customize an event

System > Event Browser

  1. From the Event Browser list box (the box just beneath the Event Browser title bar), change the selection from All Filtered Events to Only Customized Events.
    The Event Browser page changes as follows:

  1. Click New to customize an event, or click an existing customized event to modify the event’s properties. The Customize Event page appears.

  2. In the Event Code box, specify the event that you want to customize.

  3. If you want to change the severity assigned to this event, choose a severity from the Severity Level for Event list box.

  4. If you want to customize the throttling rules for this event, specify the Interval and Number values.
    These values determine how often (Number) any event appears in a specified time period (Interval).

    Example

    If you specify 3 as the Number and 60 as the Interval, then the specified event (for example, 40562) can appear only three  times in the Event Browser or Windows Event Viewer in any 60-minute time period. If the event actually occurs five times in a 60-minute time period, the event is displayed only three times.

  5. Click Save.
    The "Only Customized Events" view of the Event Browser appears.

  6. From the Event Browser list box, choose All Filtered Events.
    The normal view of the Event Browser appears. Changes in event properties begin from this point, and are not retroactive.

To remove or delete a customized event

To return an event to its default properties, delete the customized version of the event.

System > Event Browser

  1. From the Event Browser list box (the box just beneath the Event Browser title bar), change the selection from All Filtered Events to Only Customized Events.
    The Event Browser page changes as follows:

  1. Click the check box beside the customized events that you want to delete.

  2. Click Delete.
    The customized events are deleted.

  3. From the Event Browser list box, choose All Filtered Events.
    The normal view of the Event Browser appears. Changes in event properties begin from this point, and are not retroactive.