Dell OpenManage Network Manager Web Client Guide 5.0 - Page 130

Not Service Effecting means that alarm propagation ignores alarms for this event. In other words, no impact to associated entities occurs. This also means alarms created for this event type appear as Not Service Effecting in the alarm manager-handy to help clean up noisy alarm views since you can filter to conceal these. Propagation policies configure "Alarm Propagation"-associations based propagation paths to generate calculated alarm states against associated entities like links and services. See Event Processing Rules on page 108 for more about configuring these. For example, link propagation works like this: If one or both associated endpoints have an impacting alarm, then OpenManage Network Manager generates a calculated alarm for the corresponding link at the highest severity of either endpoint. If both endpoints are clear then the resulting, calculated event is clear. This means alarm correlation removes any existing calculated alarm against the link. If you upgrade Dell OpenManage Network Manager, all alarms migrated to from previous versions appear as service-effecting, regardless of severity. To alter multiple events' impact propagation, export the event definitions, and alter the XML export to reflect the kind of propagation desired for events. Search for the paired 0 tags, and alter the numbers within them as follows: Default - 0 Impacts Top Level-1 Impacts Subcomponents-2 Not service effecting-4 Re-import the altered event definition file to update your event definitions. Advisory Text-The Advisory Text appears with the event. Configure it in the text box here. 130 Event Definitions | Key Portlets