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Motivation: In larger networks, there can be quite large amount of alarms and events in logs. When netxms user is trying to solve a network problem, he filters existing alarms or events until it is narrow enough to show only required items. Such tasks are typically repeated several times and creating the new filtering expression every time is tedious and error prone. That is why it would be useful if log filters can be saved for later use.

User will need to be able to save and use filter expression, give name to filter expression, change the name and remove filter expression.
I am not quite sure how to fit such feature in existing GUI. One solution from other NMS was, that each unfiltered log (events, alarms, ...) was a node in a tree. Filter expressions saved by user were nodes below that.

What do you think, do you find this feature useful and worth implementing?

Lukas

Hi!

Yes, this feature is definitely useful. As for UI one of the simplest options could be add two items to log viewer's menu - to save current filter and to load saved filter. Loading saved filters could be also implemented similar to bookmarks or history tab in browsers - open additional list/tree on side by pressing some hot key or selecting menu item.

Another useful addition could be new items in object's context menu to show event log for specific object - it will open event viewer with filter preset.

Best regards,
Victor