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To provide fine-grained control of how to handle repeated events of any kind, opEvents also supports programmable event suppression. Using this facility the administrator can define flexible rules for when to suppress repeat events, based on the recent event history and some further refinement criteria. Please note, however, that programmable suppression is available only for classes or groups of events and cannot be enabled specifically for a single node only.
The configuration file EventRules.nmis can contain any number of user-defined event synthesis and suppression directives given in a simple, almost self-explanatory format.
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