Designing the rules to correlate events

After you plan for event correlation, you must design the rules to correlate the events.

First, complete Planning for event correlation.
To design the rules, take the following steps:
  1. Design the organization of the rules and rule blocks within the rule set.
  2. Design the level at which different variables are to be defined, for example, at the level of the rule set, rule block, or rule.
  3. Design the elements of each rule based on the rule pattern.

    This step makes use of the constructs of each rule pattern that you identified in the planning stage.

  4. Design the interactions among rules, especially with regard to the forwarding of events and the skipping of rule set processing for duplicate events.

    For more details, see Event flow through a rule set.

  5. Design, develop, and test any Java™ methods and associated snippets that you created to be called within expressions.
Proceed to Getting started with the rule builder.