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- A role helps define a what a set of devices help accomplish or to define their importance within the system.
- The Common-events table is consulted for each event to decide it’s importance vs the devices role
- Example Interface Down events, these are critical on Core devices but are Normal on Access (switches).
- role is an attribute commonly used as a "Control" in Thresholding to apply different thresholds to devices based on their use/role.
- Roles are set per device and are used in the definition of an escalation.
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To edit via the file simply edit /usr/local/nmis8/modesl/Common-event.nmis
Using "role" to decide what thresholds to apply to a device
See this section of the thresholding documentation to see an example of using the role of a device as part of the policy.
Basic and Advanced Thresholds in NMIS8#HaveasetofthresholdsforCoreCPU