Console messages are received by the Console Monitor agent and sent to the
management station singly with the computer name and time as trap. The number of messages you will have to deal with will depend on the number, utilization and size of the computers monitored by the Console Monitor agent. It will, however, very seldom be meaningful to pass all console messages on to the management station. The Console Monitor agent therefore provides two options for filtering console messages. Positive and negative message filters are provided.
Positive message filter
Each console message is assigned a specific routing code. You define the messages to be output on the management station by selecting specific routing codes which are defined in operator roles.
The message codes of console messages and strings contained in the query or TYPIO can also be used as selection criteria to define which messages are sent to the management station. The relevant message codes are stored in a message filter file and this is evaluated by the Console Monitor agent when it is started and during a session if the file is updated.
Negative message filter
The Console Monitor agent allows you to suppress certain messages when logging on to UCON.
Creating the message filter file, which must be specified when the agent is started, is described in section “Agents-specific options for starting agents manually”. The message filter file can be modified during a session by writing the consMonMsgFilter MIB object (positive message filter) and via the command program; the negative message filter consMonNegMsgFilter cannot be modified during operation.
If the newly assigned message filter file cannot be opened, it is rejected with the return code General error and the old file is used. No traps are sent to the management station if the message filter file contains either no message codes or no valid ones. The negative message filter consMonNegMsgFilter cannot be modified during a session.