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This value is in seconds. Once all conditions of the rules match, the rule fires. The inhibit value is the time in seconds that must elapse before the rule is eligible to be fired again. This prevents excessive 'synthetic events' in the event of a major outage. Matching individual node events that are received during this inhibit period will be associated with the previously fired synthetic event and shall be suppressed.
Count
This value represents the minimum number of matching events that must be received in order for the rule to fire.
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