Patterns
Patterns form the basis of your autoaction database. Each pattern specifies the messages you want to match and can include autoactions that are performed when the pattern matches a message.
Message-Matching Criteria
Message-match criteria are the part of a pattern that describes the message or messages you want to match. They identify the important parts of the message and constraints, such as message length, that must be satisfied for the message to match the pattern.
Autoactions
Autoactions provide the automation of managed hosts. By specifying autoactions, you can automate operations in response to system messages. When AMS receives a message and matches it to a pattern in the active database, any actions defined in the matched pattern are automatically executed.
Variables
Variables provide a means for AMS to store information from system messages, which can be used for
Matching patterns to later messages
Conditionally executing autoactions
Building action text
Expressions
Expressions provide additional capabilities in an autoaction database. You can use them to constrain pattern matching to conditions specified in the message-match criteria, and to add conditional logic to the execution of autoactions.