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When troubleshooting state it's important to realize that event.event and event.stateful are two completely different things. event.stateful is referred to as 'State Type' in the node context view. State is tracked based on event.stateful only, state status is generally up or down and may be found is in the value of event.state.
EventParserRules.nmis provides the ultimate in flexibility in allowing the user to dictate what event.stateful and event.state will be presented to opEvents. For example event.event can be a completely different value then event.stateful.
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