an- agement client or by setting match criteria and specifying the actions to be executed when an event matches the filter. Types of filter actions are: Suppress filter actions: Suppress events that match the filter criteria, either all events or multiple events of some type within some given interval. Send trap actions: Send SNMP v1 traps for events matching particular filter cri- teria. The traps can be configured to have specified event data and can be config- ured to be sent to any specified host. 12 Fault Management AdventNet Alert Filter Configuration Configured Filters Configured Filter Actions Action Type Suppress Action Run Command Action Send Trap Action Send E Mail Action Custom Filter Alert Filter Name New Action Details Match Criteria Severity Message Click To Edit Message Category Entity Event Filter Filter Action Update Filter Load From File Apply Modify Delete Modify Delete Cancel Filter Save To File Figure 12.32 Alert filter configuration. Send e-mail actions: Send an e-mail for events matching filter criteria. Run command actions: Run a command on the server for events matching particu- lar filter criteria. These can be used to page someone, send an email or to execute any desired command. Run custom Java class filter: Write Java code to perform actions and configure them to be applied to events matching particular filter criteria. For a given event, all filters in the event filters list are tested to see whether they sat- isfy the match criteria. If the event matches an event filter, then the actions associated with that filter will be executed. After execution of the actions specified in the match- ing filter, the event will be checked for a match with the remaining filters in the list. If a match is found, the corresponding event filter will be executed, and so on. 12.12.3 Alerts Alert filters are used to filter and modify the properties of the incoming alert. When an alert is received by FMS, the alert filters will be applied if the match criteria matches the alert properties. It is possible