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Sorry Merlin,

We do not support Global entity wild carding in V1.1 Alarms. 
The good news is that by V1.2 your dreams will come true!

- Anil


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I've been working with DECmcc v1.1 EFT and am trying to learn more about
defining alarms rules.  From the Iconic Map PM I'm using the rule function
to build alarms rules and would like to apply a specific rule to all instances
within a specific entity class such as all bridges.  

Can a wild card character be used to accomplish this?

I've entered the following to try to detect all bridges serrving as LTM 
listeners:

	ENTITY			= Bridge *
	ATTRIBUTE NAME		= Bridge Function
	RELATIONAL OPERATOR	= EQ
	COMPARISON VALUE	= LTM Listener
	STATE			= Enable
	SEVERITY		= Warning

I get the following error msg , "valid attribute expression not found".

If I change the * to the name of a bridge in the domain, the rule definition 
is successful.

Am I doing something wrong, or cann't wild cards be used in this circumstance?

Merlin

Sorry Merlin .. The v1.1 Alarms package does not support Global Wildcards;
that is what you are doing when you specify "Bridge *"

We do support Child Wildcards in 1.1 (if that helps at all)

Global Wildcards are on our list for the next release.

I would have expected a different error message however, something
more like "Valid entity specification not found in alarm expression."

I'll have to look into that (and get it into the release notes)

/keith

Merlin -- The incorrect message is coming from the Rule Binding FM...I'm not
sure why, but I will look into it - and try to get it fixed, or into the
release notes.

/keith